Mail robbery. Post boy robbed between Maidstone and Rochester

Whereas the Post-Boy carrying the Mail of Letters from Maidstone to Rochester, between the Hours of Nine and Ten o'Clock on Friday Night last, was attacked near the Hospital, within a Quarter of a Mile of Rochester, by three Footpads, one of whom fired a Gun or Pistol, loaded with large Shot, which wounded the Post-Boy very dangerously in his Body, Face and Arms:

This is therefore to give Notice, That whoever shall apprehend and convict, or cause to be apprehended and convicted, any one or more of the Persons who made this Assault, will be intitled to a Reward of Fifty Pounds, over and above the Reward given by Act of Parliament for apprehending of Highwaymen: or if any Person or Persons, whether Accomplice, or knowing thereof, (except the Person who actually fired the Gun or Pistol) shall make Discovery, whereby one or more of the Persons may be apprehended and brought to Justice, such Discoverer or Discoverers will, upon the Conviction of any one of the Parties, be intitled to the same Reward of Fifty Pounds, and will also have His Majesty's most gracious Pardon.

ANTH. TODD, Secretary.