Mail robbery. Post boy robbed between Chesterfield and Sheffield

Whereas the Post-Boy carrying the Mail, dispatched from this Office upon Tuesday the 28th of September, from Chesterfield to Sheffield, was, on Thursday last, the 30th of the same Month, about half an Hour past Six of the Clock in the Evening, attacked and robbed, in a Lane between Coal Ashon and Little Norton, in the County of Derby, by Two Men on Foot, who took from him and carried away the Mail, containing the Bag of Letters from London to Sheffield, and likewise the Bag containing the Bye and Cross-Road Letters, from Chesterfield to Sheffield, as also four Shillings and Sixpence from the said Post-Boy.

The two Persons who committed this Robbery are described as middle sized Men, and wearing, the one of them a blue Coat and white Waistcoat, and the other a light-coloured Frock; one of them was pitted with the Small-Pox, and the other had a Mark upon one Hand, as if the same had been cut.

This is therefore to give Notice, That whoever shall apprehend and convict, or cause to be apprehended and convicted, the two Persons 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, 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 entitled to the same Reward of Two Hundred Pounds, and also have his Majesty's most gracious Pardon.

GEORGE SHELVOCKE, Secretary.