Mail robbery. Rye Mail bags stolen in front of the post office

The Post-Boy bringing the Rye Mail to this Office, having between Four and Five o'Clock this Morning, imprudently stopt at the Horse and Groom, a Public House in Kent-street, to take some Refreshment, found, upon his Return to his Horse left at the Door, that the said Mail, containing the following Bags of Letters, was cut off and carried away, viz.

Rye, Stonecrouch, Sevenoaks, Tunbridge, Hastings, Battle, Cranbrook, Biddenden, Tenterden, and Hurstgreen.

This is therefore to give Notice, That whoever shall apprehend and convict, or cause to be apprehended and convicted, the Person or Persons who stole and carried off the said Mail, 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 in the said Robbery, or knowing thereof, shall make Discovery, whereby the Person or 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 Fifty Pounds.

ANTHONY TODD, Secretary.