Mail robbery. Worcester mail robbed near Shepherds Bush. A follow-on

Whereas the Post Boy carrying the Worcester Mail from hence to Southall, was, on Sunday Morning the 12th instant, between the Hours of Four and Five of the Clock, attacked and robbed on the Road near Shepherds Bush, by a Footpad, who laid hold of the Bridle of the Post Boy's Horse, and bid him dismount, and afterwards led the said Horse into a Lane near the great Road, and from thence into a Field adjoining, and there near to a Hay Rick took off the Mail from the Horse, opened it, and afterwards the Letters contained in the following Bags, viz. Campden, Chipping-Norton, Eversham, Burford, Whitney, Woodstock, Oxford, Ludlow, Bromyard, Worcester, Thame, Southall, Gerrard's Cross, Uxbridge, High Wickham and Beaconsfield.

Note, The following Bags in the said Mail were unopened, viz. Shipston, Enston, and Tenbury; and the said Foot-pad, after detaining the Post-boy upwards of two Hours, mounted the said Post Boy's Horse, and rode off with the same towards Acton, which Horse was found the same Morning about Eight o'Clock near the Turnpike at Hyde Park Corner.

The Person who committed this Robbery has since put off several of the Bank Notes, and indorsed the Name of James Wilson thereon, to several Inn-keepers on the Road to Caxton, by travelling Post in Post-Chaises with four Horses, by the Way of Barnet, Hatfield, Stevenage, and Bugden, and returning from Caxton by Way of Royston, Ware, and Enfield to London, where he was set down at Gray's Inn Gate, in Gray's Inn Lane, about Twelve o'Clock at Noon, on Tuesday the 14th Instant. This Person is described to be rather above the Middle-Size, of a brown Complexion; very thin Visage and Body, with an effeminate Voice; he had on a Silver-laced Hat, with a Cockade, blue Surtout Coat with Brass Buttons, a dark brown close-bodied Coat underneath, a Pair of Breeches with Silver Gartering at the Knees, his Wig or Hair, or both mixed was a dark brown, and tied behind with a Ribbon.

This is therefore 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 Highwaymen; or if any Person or Persons, whether an 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 entitled to the same Reward of Two Hundred Pounds, and also have His Majesty's most gracious Pardon.

GEORGE SHELVOCKE, Secretary.