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Edmund Burke: This man is thus put to death by an arbitrary villain, by a more than cruel tyrant, Colonel Hannay, the substitute of a…

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This man is thus put to death by an arbitrary villain, by a more than cruel tyrant, Colonel Hannay, the substitute of a ten thousand times more cruel tyrant, Mr.
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Edmund Burke

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Burke condemns Colonel Hannay as a cruel tyrant responsible for the arbitrary execution of a man.

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