Mail robbery. Post boy robbed on Milford Heath

THE Post-Boy bringing the Mail from Haslemere to this Office last Night, was stopt on Milford-Heath, within Three Miles of Godalmin, about Half past Nine o'Clock, by a Person on Foot, dressed in a round Frock, who presented a Pistol to the Boy, and obliged him to dismount from his Horse. The Robber mounted the Horse, and rode off with the Mail, which contained the following Bags of Letters for London, viz.

Arundel, Midhurst, Petworth, Haslemere, Steyning, Shoreham.

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 of Highwaymen; or if any Person, whether an Accomplice in the said 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.