Mail robbery. Post boy robbed between Morden and Lavington, in the county of Wilts

Whereas the Post Boy carrying the Hungerford Branch Mail, dispatched from this Office on Thursday the 10th Instant, was, upon Saturday last, between Morden and Lavington in the County of Wilts, attacked and robbed, by two Highwaymen, who opened the said Mail, and took thereout the Lavington and Tinehead Bags of Letters, and likewise took from the Post Boy five Shillings, and otherwise used him very cruelly.

The only Description that is yet come to hand, of the two Persons who committed this Robbery, is, that the one was mounted upon a Black Horse or Mare, the other upon a brown one.

This is therefore to give Notice, That whoever shall apprehend and convict, or cause to be apprehended and convicted, the two Persons, or either of them, who committed this Robbery, will be intitled 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, do, or shall make Discovery, whereby both, or either of the Persons, who committed the same, may be apprehended and brought to Justice, such Discoverer, or Discoverers will, upon Conviction of the Party or Parties, be intitled to the same Reward of Two Hundred Pounds, and also have his Majesty's most gracious Pardon.

GEO. SHELVOCKE, Secretary.