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The whole trading property of America (even unoffending shipping in port) was indiscriminately and irrecoverably given, as the plunder of foreign enemies, to the sailors of your navy.
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Edmund Burke
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Editor's note · Context
Burke criticizes the British government's seizure of American property during the conflict.
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