The king had declared that he would sooner perish under their axe (he too well saw what was preparing for him) than give his sanction to the iniquitous act of proscription under which those innocent people were to be transported.
Burke highlights the king's refusal to sanction the wrongful proscription of innocent people.
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This is the result of all the delusions held out to engage a miserable people in rebellion, murder, and sacrilege, and to make them prompt and zealous instruments in the ruin of their country!
Every honest mind, every true lover of liberty and humanity, must rejoice to find that injustice is not always good policy, nor rapine the high-road to riches.
I would not exclude alteration neither; but even when I changed, it should be to preserve.
It is an evil inevitably attendant on the dominion of sovereign democratic republics.
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