Therefore the Commons did well and wisely, when they sent us here, not to attack this or that servant who may have peculated, but to punish the man who was sent to reform abuses, and to make Bengal furnish to the world a brilliant example of British justice.
Burke defends the actions of the Commons in seeking to address abuses rather than targeting individuals.
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