And, my Lords, what else could have been expected or designed by this sweeping subversion of the control of the Company's servants over the collections of the revenue, and the vesting of it in a black dewan, but fraud and peculation?
Burke argues that the changes made to the revenue collection system were designed to facilitate fraud and corruption.
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