In all the causes of peculation or malversation in office that ever have been tried before this high court, or before any lower court of judicature, in all the judicial records of modern crimes, or of antiquity, you will not find anything in any degree like it.
Burke claims that the case at hand is unprecedented in the history of judicial records regarding corruption.
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