Mail robbery. West mail robbed between Crookhorn and Sherborne

Whereas the Post-Boy, who was bringing the grand West Mail up to London, was set upon the 29th Instant in the Morning, between Crookhorn and Sherborn, by one Man, who snapt a Pistol at him, and obliged him to dismount, and then bound him Hand and Foot, and rode off with the Mail, which contained the following Bags, viz. The Plymouth, Exeter, Launceston, Dartmouth, Bodmyn, Ashburton, Totness, Barnstaple, with the Bags of that Branch; Cambleford, Oakhampton, St. Cullum's, Truroe, Crookhorn, Lyme, Axminster, Wellington, Minehead, Taunton, Ilminster, Bridport, Chard, Tiverton, Honiton, and Yeovill:

This is to give Notice, that any Person or Persons who shall apprehend the said Highwayman, or Person who committed the said Robbery, will, upon his being convicted, be entitled to the Reward of Two Hundred Pounds, besides the Reward by Act of Parliament for apprehending of Highwaymen. Or if any one Accomplice in the said Robbery shall make a Discovery of the Person who committed the Fact, such Accomplice will be entituled to the said Reward of Two Hundred Pounds, and also have the King's most gracious Pardon.

J. D. BARBUTT, Secretary.