Mail robbery. Post boy robbed between Enstone and Shepstone

THE Post-boy carrying the Mail, which was dispatched from this office last Friday night, was robbed by two footpads with crapes over their faces, on Saturday night at ten o'clock, at the bottom of Hack-lane near Long Compton, between Enstone and Shepstone, in Oxfordshire, of the whole mail, containing the following bags, viz.

The persons who committed this robbery were small sized men, but it being a dark foggy night, the boy cannot give any further description of them.

Whoever shall apprehend and convict, or cause to be apprehended and convicted, both or either of the persons 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 of 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 entitled to the same reward of Two Hundred Pounds, and will also receive his Majesty's most gracious pardon.

ANTHONY TODD, Secretary.