We have brought before you the chief of the tribe, the head of the whole body of Eastern offenders, a captain-general of iniquity, under whom all the fraud, all the peculation, all the tyranny in India are embodied, disciplined, arrayed, and paid.
Burke criticizes the leadership responsible for corruption in India, emphasizing the need for accountability.
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