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How far do you agree that "Palmerston always vigorously defended his countries interests?" Palmerston was a diligent believer in protecting the rights of British citizens across the world and therefore defending Britain as a nation which was reflected in his foreign policy. In 1848-49 Palmerston was more intent upon preserving the general peace than upon trying to please his party or parliament. In 1849-51, however, he won Radical applause for his denunciations of the cruelty of counterrevolutionaries; for his release of British arms to Sicilian insurgents and his later endorsement of William Ewart Gladstone's exposure of King Ferdinand's treatment of political prisoners; by his evident approval of the hostile reception given to the Austrian general Julius, Freiherr von Haynau, when he visited Britain; by his pressure on the Turks; and by his acceptance, when the defeated Hungarian patriot Lajos Kossuth visited Britain, of addresses describing the rulers of Austria and Russia...

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