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Mail robbery. Mail robbed on Flusco Common between Penrith and Keswick

General Post-Office, March 1, 1790
Raguin Code: NEWS –9002

THE Post-Boy carrying the Mail from Penrith to Keswick on the 25th past, was attacked by a Man on Foot, near Ten o'Clock at Night, upon Flusco Common, about Four Miles from Penrith, and robbed of his Horse, and the Mail, containing the Bags of Letters from hence of Tuesday the 23d, for the following Places, viz.

Keswick, Cockermouth, Workington, and Whitehaven, and the Bye-Letters for those Towns.

The Person who committed this Robbery was dressed in a Blue Jacket, with White Binding, a Pair of Corderoy Breeches, and ~ark Brown Stockings; is about Five Feet Eight Inches high, and appeared to be an Irishman.

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.

ANTH. TODD, Secretary.