We have stated them under two heads, violence and corruption: for these crimes will be found, my Lords, in almost every transaction with the native powers; and the prisoner is directly or indirectly involved in every part of them.
Burke categorizes the abuses as violence and corruption, implicating the prisoner in these crimes.
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