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Goverment Shouse, Staughing,
20th march, 1724.
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With reference to the Duke of Devonshire's secret despatch of the 13th December, I have the honour to inform you that such measures as are considered possible are being taken for intercepting correspondence in the Post Office without arousing the suspicions of the sorting staff, and in particular for dealing with correspondence from Vurope addressed to the person mentioned in paragraph 5 of the despatch. As regards Die Grace's telegram of 6th January, 1 do not consider that there is any danger whatever of popular faoling being aroused by the adoption of welsuras of this kind, even if the fact became known, but, as I have indicated in my secret despatch of the 12th arch the practical difficulides are such as to make it extremely unlikely that any examination will have really effective results.
2. The cuea of telegrams also presents great difficulties. This Government, which has no local telegraph system, has no weɑns of discovering to what person a tele- graphic address on a cablągrum refers and the Superintendent of the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company states that he is forbidden by the Company's rules to give any information as to telegraphic addresses or as to the contents of telsyrams except under an Order of Court. J'onnibly you can induce the Head Office of the Company to instruct the Superintendent here to supply this Jovernsent with the infor...ation which it desires on the understanding that no public use is to be Jade
KIGIT HONOUR MIN
J. H. Tivaa3, m.in.
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