Mail robbery. Cirencester mail robbed between Wickham and Uxbridge

Whereas the Post-Boy bringing the Cirencester Mail to this Office, was Yesterday Morning, between Two and Three

of the Clock, on Gerrard's Cross Common, between Wickham and Uxbridge, attacked and robbed by a single Highwayman,

mounted on a Bay Mare, who carried off the said Mail, which contained the following Bags of Letters, viz.

The Person who committed this Robbery, was a tall lusty Man, about Six Feet high, and had on a dark blue Great Coat, and a black Wig, and rode on a tall Bay Mare, with a black Tail, and a Blaze in her Forehead. This therefore is to give Notice, That whoever shall apprehend and convict, or cause to be apprehended and convicted, the Person who committed this Robbery, will be entitled to a Reward of Two Hundred Pounds, over and above the Reward given by Act of Parliament for apprehending of Highwaymen: Or if any Person or Persons, whether Accomplice in the said Robbery, or knowing thereof, shall make Discovery, whereby the Person, who committed the same, may be apprehended and brought to Justice, such Discoverer or Discoverers will, upon Conviction of the Party, be intitled to the same Reward of Two Hundred Pounds, and also have His Majesty's most gracious Pardon.

GEORGE SHELVOCKE, Secretary.

(Note of the Editor: in the May 20-23 issue of The London Gazette, the robber is described as follows:

The Person who committed this Robbery, was a tall lusty black Man, about Six Feet high, between Forty ands Fifty Years of Age, marked with the Small Pox, and had on a blue Surtout or Horseman's Coat, and under it a dark coloured one, with white Metal Buttons, and wore a black or dark coloured Wig, and rode upon a large Brown Bay Horse or Mare, Fifteen Hands high, with a bald Face, and a dark black Mane, the Tail lately docked and nicked, the Wounds not healed.)