Mail robbery. Post boy robbed between Stevenage and Welwyn

THE Post-Boy bringing the Mail from STEVENAGE to WELWYN yesterday evening, the 26th instant, was robbed of the Mail, containing the bags with the Letters from BIGGLESWADE, HITCHIN, and STEVENAGE, for LONDON, by a Footpad, about a mile from Welwyn.

He is described to be about five feet six inches high, dressed in a brown coloured coat, light coloured waistcoat, breeches, and stockings, wore his own dark coloured hair straight, and a round hat, and is supposed to have come to London immediately.

Whoever shall apprehend and convict, or cause to be apprehended and convicted, the person 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 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 entitled to the same reward of TWO HUNDRED POUNDS, and will also receive His Majesty's most gracious pardon.

ANTHONY TODD, Sec.