We wish that they may yield to well-ascertained, well-authenticated, and well-secured terms of reconciliation,--not that your Majesty should owe the recovery of your dominions to their total waste and destruction.
Burke wishes for reconciliation terms that do not lead to the destruction of the colonies.
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