Mail robbery. Post boy robbed near Neston

THE Post Boy carrying the Mails from CHESTER to LIVERPOOL, on Monday, the 17th Instant, was stopped on the Highway, about a mile beyond Neston, at half past three o'Clock in the morning, by two men on foot, who robbed him of the Mail, which contained the Letters from Chester for Liverpool, as also the Letters from Ireland for that place, which had arrived at Chester in two Irish Mails the day before. The Post Boy describes one of the Robbers to be about 5 feet 4 inches high, rather lusty, and to have worn a round hat and a light coloured coat. The other, about 5 feet 8 inches high, slender made, and to have worn a round hat and a brown coat. 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 Highwaymen: Or if any person, whether an accomplice in the 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 be entitled to the said Reward of TWO HUNDRED POUNDS, and will also receive His Majesty's most gracious pardon.

ANTHONY TODD, Sec.