Its inhabitants have no rights, no laws, no liberties; their state is mean and depraved; they may be fined for any purpose of court extravagance or prodigality,--or as Cheyt Sing was fined by him, not only upon every war, but upon every pretence of war.
Burke describes the dire state of the inhabitants under despotic rule, lacking rights and liberties.
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