3-i COACHING. 



continued, for I find in 1814 the Stroud Mail 

 was robbed of bank-notes to the amount of 

 two thousand eight hundred pounds ; and in 

 the following year the Buckingham stage-coach 

 was robbed of bills and notes to a considerable 

 amount. 



Occasionally the victims of a robbery adver- 

 tised for the loss of any valued article, as will 

 be seen by the following whimsical and good- 

 humoured appeal extracted from Salisbury's 

 " Flying Post" of Oct. 27, 1696 :— 



" Whereas six gentlemen (all of the same 

 honourable profession), having been more than 

 ordinary put to it for a little pocket money, did, 

 on the 14th instant, in the evening, near Kentish 

 Town, borrow of two persons (in a coach) a 

 certain sum of money, without staying to give 

 bond for the repayment, and whereas fancy was 

 taken to the hat, peruke, cravat, sword, and 

 cane of one of the creditors, which were all lent 

 as freely as the money ; these are, therefore, to 

 desire the said worthies, how fond soever they 

 mav be of the other loans, to unfancy the cane 

 ao-ain, and send it to Will's Coffee-House in 

 Scotland-yard, it being too short for any such 

 proper gentlemen as they are to walk with, and 

 too small for any of their important uses, and 



