Mail robbery. Post boy robbed of the Scotch mail near Morpeth

ON Saturday last the 16th Instant, about Six o'clock in the Evening, the Post-Boy was attacked and robbed, at a Place called Priest's Bridge, about Four Miles North of Morpeth, of the whole Scotch Mail, and the Bags from Berwick, Belford, and Alnwick, which should have arrived here this Morning, by Two Footpads, armed with Bludgeons, who stopped the Boy, cut the Mails from the Cart, and immediately conveyed the same into a Wood adjoining, of whom no further Description can be given from the Darkness of the Night.

Whosoever shall apprehend and convict, or cause to be apprehended and convicted, both or either of the Persons 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 said Robbery, or knowing thereof, shall make Discovery, whereby both or either of the Persons who committed the same may be apprehended and brought to Justice; such Discoverer will, upon Conviction of both or either of the Parties, be intitled to the same Reward of TWO HUNDRED POUNDS, and will also receive His Majesty's most gracious Pardon.

ANTH. TODD, Secretary.