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As my inability to pay so vast a sum was manifest, I produced the treaty you signed and gave me, but to no effect: their hearts were determined upon violence.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke describes a situation of financial coercion and the futility of his attempts to leverage a treaty for protection.
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