This strict sense of telegraph developed from French usage for Napoleon's overland semaphore network but rather arbitrarily excludes similar Chinese and other signalling networks.

The laſt common Branch of the King's Revenue conſiſted of Forfeitures, both of Lands and Goods, in Caſes of Treaſon, and Fines or ſome knovvn mulctuary Puniſhments upon other Crimes, vvhich vvere diſtinctly preſcribed in the Saxon Lavvs, even for Manſlaughter and Murther itſelf; […]

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And let thy mustie vapours march so thicke, That in their smoakie rankes, his smothred light May set at noone, and make perpetuall night.