Having abandoned this obvious policy connected with principle, we have seen the Regicide power taking the reverse course, and making real conquests in the West Indies, to which all our dear-bought advantages (if we could hold them) are mean and contemptible.
Burke critiques the failure to pursue a coherent policy, leading to losses in the West Indies.
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