I am now come to my last condition, without which, for one, I will never readily lend my hand to the destruction of any established government, which is,--that, in its present state, the government of the East India Company is absolutely incorrigible.
Burke expresses his unwillingness to support the destruction of a government he deems incorrigible.
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