Hastings must, therefore, have pocketed for his own use, or that of his gang of peculators; and whilst he was pretending to save you eight lacs by one fraud, he committed another fraud of eighteen lacs for himself: and this is the method by which one act of peculation begets another in the economy of fraud.
Burke accuses Hastings of committing multiple acts of fraud for personal gain.
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But the course of succession is the healthy habit of the British Constitution.
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