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Edmund Burke: Hastings's money, not the Company's; they would find that it is carried to his credit.

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Hastings's money, not the Company's; they would find that it is carried to his credit.
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Edmund Burke

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Burke asserts that the funds in question belong to Hastings personally rather than the Company, highlighting issues of corruption.

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