The money taken from him was not money pretended to be received in lieu of entertainment; it was not money taken from a farmer-general of revenue, out of an idea that his profits were unreasonable, and greater than government ought to allow; it was not a donation from a great man, as an act of his bounty.
Burke clarifies that the money taken was not justified by any pretense of entertainment or reasonable profit.
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