If this letter should ever come into their hands, I hope they will believe there are those of our nation who feel for their unmerited fall, and for the cruel confiscation of their fortunes, with no common sensibility.
Burke hopes that a letter he writes will convey the feelings of empathy from his nation towards those suffering unjustly.
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I would not exclude alteration neither; but even when I changed, it should be to preserve.
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