Thirdly, they tell you what they conceive to be the perfidious policy which dictates your delusive offer: that is, the design of cheating not only them, but the people of England, against whose interest and inclination this war is supposed to be carried on.
Burke accuses the enemy of perceiving British offers as deceitful, reflecting on the nature of political negotiations.
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