But the House of Commons was too just not to send him to this tribunal, whose justice they cannot doubt, whose penetration he cannot elude, and whose decision will justify those managers whose characters he attempted to defame.
Burke asserts the integrity of the House of Commons in seeking justice against Hastings.
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