Mail robbery. Post boy robbed between Bodmin and Truro. A follow-on

THE Post-Boy carrying the MAIL from BODMIN to TRURO, on Thursday night the 11th instant, was stopped within two miles of Truro, about ten o'clock, by a person mounted on a stout white horse, who presented a pistol to the boy, and took from him the Mail which contained the Bags of Letters from hence of Tuesday the 9th inst. for FALMOUTH and TRURO, and the Bags with the Bye-Letters for TRURO, and all other parts of Cornwall beyond Truro.

One JAMES ELLIOTT, of Padstow, in Cornwall, strongly suspected of being the Robber.

He is about 30 years of age, about 5 feet 9 inches high, of a sallow complexion, wears a black tye-wig, his natural hair, which is beginning to grow out, is also black; he walks ill, owing to his having corns or tender feet; was lately dressed in a bluish-grey coat, a dark drab great-coat with three capes, and a round hat covered with oil-skin. He absconded from Padstow on Saturday Night the 13th instant.

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.