We find this man, armed with an illegal commission, undertaking an enterprise which he has since said was perilous, which proved to be perilous, and in which, as he has told us himself, the existence of the British empire in India was involved.
Burke describes the illegal actions of a man whose decisions could threaten the British Empire in India.
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