"Palmerston, with typical resilience and easy conscience, dismissed Austria's complaints as a silly fuss over nothing. Clarendon, however, listened uneasily as Austria quoted Blackstone to back up her demands and proved from British blue books that she asked only what Britain claimed from the United States in regard to Irish revolutionaries on American soil, and what the British earlier had granted France. So Clarendon suppressed his doubts and counter-attacked, denouncing Austria's charges as utterly baseless. Their only purpose was to discredit Britain, the main obstacle to Austro-papal schemes for fastening a uniform despotism on Europe...."
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