But be these English creditors what they may, the creditors most certainly not fraudulent are the natives, who are numerous and wretched indeed: by exhausting the whole revenues of the Carnatic, nothing is left for them.
Burke highlights the plight of the native population suffering due to the exploitation of their resources.
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