On the record
Hastings confirmed, established, increased, and made the instrument of the most austere tyranny, of the basest peculations, and the most scandalous and iniquitous extortions.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke accuses Hastings of perpetuating severe tyranny and corruption in his governance.
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