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.