Nothing was done or attempted to prevent the operation of the interest of delinquent servants of the Company in the General Court, by which they might even come to be their own judges, and, in effect, under another description, to become the masters in that body which ought to govern them.
Burke critiques the potential for conflicts of interest within the governance of the East India Company.
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