The alms of the settlement, in this dreadful exigency, were certainly liberal; and all was done by charity that private charity could do: but it was a people in beggary; it was a nation which stretched out its hands for food.
Burke acknowledges the efforts of charity amidst a humanitarian crisis, highlighting the desperation of the people.
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