The first thing that we shall do is to state, and which we shall prove in evidence, that this vice of bribery was the ancient, radical, endemical, and ruinous distemper of the Company's affairs in India, from the time of their first establishment there.
Burke highlights the long-standing issue of bribery within the British East India Company's operations in India.
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