Here, then, your Lordships have a prince first compelled to enter into a negotiation, and then induced to accede to a treaty by false assurances that it should not be executed, which he declares nothing but force should otherwise have compelled him to accede to.
Burke describes the coercive tactics used to force a ruler into an agreement under false pretenses.
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