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Now I will show your Lordships that the man who has the horrible audacity to make this declaration did himself assign to the Rajah these very forts.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke highlights the hypocrisy of a man who claims to act against rebellion while having previously granted the very powers he now condemns.
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