But this general insurrection, which at every moment threatened to blaze out afresh, and to involve all the provinces in its flames, rent in pieces that veil of fraud and mystery that covers all the miseries of all the provinces.
Burke describes how a general insurrection revealed the hidden suffering of the provinces under British rule.
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