Mail robbery. Post boy robbed between Derby and Nottingham
FIFTY POUNDS REWARD.
THE Post-Boy carrying the Cross-Road Mail from Derby to Nottingham, on Sunday Evening, the 22d Instant, having
stopt to deliver a Letter at Draycott Fieldgate, had the Mail taken from his Horse.
There were Eight Bags of Letters in the Mail, viz.
Birmingham and Newark, | Litchfield and Newark, | Buxton and Newark, | Derby and Newark, |
Ditto and Nottingham, | Ditto and Nottingham, | Ditto and Nottingham, | Ditto and Nottingham, |
which contained, besides the Letters from Birmingham, Litchfield, Buxton, and Derby, the Letters from all Parts of
Derbyshire, Oxfordshire, Staffordshire and Warwickshire, for Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire, the West Riding of Yorkshire,
Durham, Northumberland and Scotland.
Whoever shall apprehend and convict, or cause to be apprehended and convicted, the Person or Persons who stole the
said Mail and Bags, will be intitled to a reward of FIFTY POUNDS; or if any Person concerned in the Stealing thereof will
surrender himself and make Discovery, whereby one or more of the Persons concerned therein may be apprehended and
brought to Justice, such Discoverer will be intitled to the said Reward of FIFTY POUNDS, and will also receive His Majesty's
most gracious Pardon.
ANTH. TODD, Secretary.