We hope and trust, that, after all his concealments, and though he appear resolved to die in the last dike of prevarication, all his artifices will not be able to secure him from the siege which the diligence of the House of Commons has laid to his corruptions.
Burke expresses confidence that the House of Commons will uncover corruption despite attempts to conceal it.
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