What were the enormities of the infant king, whom they caused, by lingering tortures, to perish in their dungeon, and whom if at last they dispatched by poison, it was in that detestable crime the only act of mercy they have ever shown?
Burke highlights the cruelty inflicted upon an infant king, questioning the morality of such actions.
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