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Hastings uses his name and authority to make them such in the hands of the basest, the wickedest, the corruptest, the most audacious and atrocious villain ever heard of.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke condemns Hastings for using his authority to manipulate others for his own corrupt ends.
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