Mail robbery. Robbery of the Manchester & Warrington mails

SIR,

THE Manchester and Warrington mails, for this city, were robbed yesterday evening, and some suspicion at present rests on the under-described men. You are therefore requested to use every effort to apprehend them on suspicion, and to enquire whether the horses described, have been left by them in your neighbourhood.

One of the men is about eighteen or twenty years of age, five feet four or five inches high, slender made, short light-coloured

hair, long thin smooth face; wore a light-coloured ash coat, striped green Manchester waistcoat, boots and long-necked spurs, round hat, had a drab-coloured top-coat buckled to the crupper of his saddle; rode a cropt dark-bay or brown horse, about fifteen hands high, which had a whisk tail, a white roach down the face, rather lame behind, had a bandage under the knee, to prevent the speedy cut on the off foot before.

The other man is about twenty-five or thirty years of age, five feet seven or eight inches high, stout made, black short hair powdered, lately stumpt from a queue, pitted with the small-pox, and pimpled face; had on a black coat, and a kind of half pantaloons made of thickset, from the middle of the thigh to the calf of the leg, boots and long-necked spurs, round hat, had an ash-coloured top coat, rode a light chestnut blood mare, with a blaze down the face, about fifteen hands and one inch high, with a rat-tail; shod yesterday by his own order on her fore-feet, with double groved or channeled shoes.

I am, Sir, Your obedient servant,
STEPHEN PALIN.