DESPATCHES

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  DESPATCHES. Official communications of official Persons, on the affairs of  
  government. 
       2. In general, the bearer of despatches is entitled to all the 
  facilities that can be given him, in his own country, or in a neutral state; 
  but a neutral cannot, in general, be the bearer of despatches of one of the 
  belligerent parties. 6 C. Rob. 465 see 2 Dodson, 54; Edw. 274.