Ought not ministry to have said to the creditors, "The person who admits your debt stands excepted to as evidence; he stands charged as a collusive party, to hand over the public revenues to you for sinister purposes.
Burke suggests that the ministry should have required creditors to prove their claims as a safeguard against collusion.
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