By degrees, as the theatre of operation was distant, as its intercourse was with many great, some barbarous, and all of them armed nations, nations in which not only the sovereign, but the subjects, were armed, it was found necessary to enlarge their powers.
Burke explains that the distance and nature of operations necessitated an expansion of the Company's powers.
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