Mail robbery. Post boy robbed near Newmarket

THE Post Boy carrying the Bye-Mail in a Cart, from NEWARK to CAMBRIDGE, on Tuesday night, the 25th Instant, was stopped, between the hours of Twelve and One o'Clock, by a Man on horseback, about three miles and a half from Newmarket, who took from him seven Bags, namely, Norwich, Yarmouth, Lynn, Thetford, Brandon, Bury, and Newmarket, containing the Letters for Cambridge. All the Bags, except Newmarket, were found early the next morning, near the place where the Postboy was robbed, empty. 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 said Reward of TWO HUNDRED POUNDS, and will also receive His Majesty's most gracious pardon.

ANTHONY TODD, Sec.