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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.
ANTHONY TODD, Secretary.

-- 8 2 0 6 NEWS (General Post-Office, February 9, 1782)

To PREVENT MAIL ROBBERIES.

IT is recommended to all Persons, at present uninformed, who may have occasion to send BANK NOTES by the Post, to
cut them in Two Parts, according to the following Specimen where it is marked with a black Line, and send them by
different Posts; first writing the Name, Date, and Year at one End of the Note, and the Letter and Number at the other
End; by this Means each Part will contain a sufficient Specification of the Whole, and prevent any kind of Difficulty in the
Payment of it at the Bank of England to the right Owner, in case of the Loss of the other Part.
ANTHONY TODD, Secretary .

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This Specimen will be put up at every Post-Office in the Kingdom.

-- 8 2 0 7 NEWS (General Post Office, April 24, 1782)

DANIEL HUGHES, standing charged on ~violent Suspicion of being an Accessary after the Fact to a Felony committed
by George and Joseph Weston, now in Custody for robbing the Bristol Mail, on the 29th of January, 1781, near Cranford-
Bridge, in the county of Middlesex; Whoever will apprehend the said Daniel Hughes, or be the Means of his being
apprehended, shall receive a Reward of FIFTY POUNDS, to be paid on his Conviction.
The said Daniel Hughes is by Trade a Taylor, lately lived at No. 15, Leicester-street, near Swallow-street, and from
thence removed to Mrs. Taylor's, Titchfield-street; he is Brother to Luke otherwise Lucius Hughes, now under Sentence of
Death in Newgate, is about Thirty Years old, Five Feet Four or Five Inches high, stout and well made, has a large Scar
under One of his Jaws, wears his Hair, which is of a dark Colour, generally tied in a Queue, and lately kept a Lottery-Office
near Charing cross.
ANTH. TODD, Sec.

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