It does not appear to have been necessary that those magistrates who declared for their own king, on the faith and under the immediate protection of the king of Prussia, should be delivered over to the gallows.
Burke argues against the execution of magistrates who supported their king, emphasizing the injustice of their treatment.
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Of this consolation whoever deprives them deadens their industry, and strikes at the root of all acquisition as of all conservation.
I would not exclude alteration neither; but even when I changed, it should be to preserve.
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.
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