Mail robbery. Bristol mail robbed near Cranford Bridge

THE Post-Boy bringing the Bristol Mail this Morning from Maidenhead was stopt between Two and Three o'Clock by

a single Highwayman, with a Crape over his Face, between the Eleventh and Twelfth Mile-stone, near to Cranford-bridge,

who presented a Pistol to him, and after making him alight, drove away the Horse and Cart, which were found about Seven

o'Clock this Morning in a Meadow Field near Farmer Lott's at Twyford, when it appeared that the greatest Part of the

Letters were taken out of the Bath and Bristol Bags, and the following Bags entirely taken away.

The Person who committed this Robbery is supposed to have had an Accomplice, as Two Persons passed the Post-Boy on Cranford-bridge on Horseback, prior to the Robbery, One of whom he thinks was the Robber; but it being extremely dark, he is not able to give any Description of their Persons.

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.

ANTH. TODD, Sec.