My Lords, we here see a body of usurers put into possession of all the estates of the nobility: let us now see if this act was necessary, even for the avowed purposes of its agents,--the relief of the Nabob's financial difficulties, and the payment of his debts to the Company.
Burke challenges the necessity of dispossessing nobility, questioning the motives behind such actions in the context of financial relief.
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