Mail robbery. Post boy attacked and robbed near York on the road to Malton

ON Saturday last the 4th Instant, about Eleven at Night, the Post-Boy was attacked and robbed, Eight Miles from York, in the Road to Malton, of the Bag of Letters from this Office of Thursday Night last the 2d Instant, for Scarborough, Malton, Whitby, and other Places within the Delivery of Scarborough and Malton, and also of the Bag with the Bye and Road Letters for the same Places.

The Person who committed this Robbery was then on Foot, but when he passed two Turnpike Gates in the Neighbourhood was mounted upon a Light Bay mettled Horse, about Fourteen Hands and an Half high, strong made; and the Bar-keepers agree with the Post-Boy in the Description of the Robber, that he was a stout Man, Six Feet high, and thin in the Face, with Black Stockings, Waistcoat and Breeches, and Brown Copper-coloured Coat; his own short curled Hair powdered, with a round Hat, two Sides of it tied up; and the Post-Boy observed, whilst he lay with his Hands and Feet bound in a Field adjoining the Road, that the Robber put the Bills, &c. which he took out of the Letters, into the inside Pocket of his light Great Coat.

Whoever shall apprehend and convict, or cause to be apprehended and convicted, the Person 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 Highwaymen; or if any Person, whether an Accomplice in the Robbery, or knowing thereof, shall make Discovery, whereby the Person who committed the same may be apprehended and brought to Justice, such Discoverer will, upon Conviction of the Party, be intitled to the same Reward of TWO HUNDRED POUNDS, and will also receive His Majesty's most gracious Pardon.

ANTH. TODD, Secretary.