No: it is either the fair result of twenty-two years' deliberation that we bring before you, or what the prisoner says is just and true,--that nothing but malice in the Commons of Great Britain could possibly produce such an accusation as the fruit of such an inquiry.
Burke argues that the accusations against the prisoner are either the result of careful consideration or malicious intent from the Commons.
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