. The life of Napoleon I, including new materials from the British official records . him the hard necessity which now dictated the transfer ofVenice to Austria. France could not now shed any moreof her best blood for what was, after all, only a moralcause : the Venetians therefore must cultivate resigna-tion for the present and hope for the future. The advicewas useless. The Venetian democrats determined on alast desperate venture. They secretly sent three deputies,among them Dandolo, with a large sum of money where-with to bribe the Directors to reject the treaty of CampoFormio. This would h
. The life of Napoleon I, including new materials from the British official records . him the hard necessity which now dictated the transfer ofVenice to Austria. France could not now shed any moreof her best blood for what was, after all, only a moralcause : the Venetians therefore must cultivate resigna-tion for the present and hope for the future. The advicewas useless. The Venetian democrats determined on alast desperate venture. They secretly sent three deputies,among them Dandolo, with a large sum of money where-with to bribe the Directors to reject the treaty of CampoFormio. This would have been quite practicable, had nottheir errand become known to Bonaparte. Alarmed andenraged at this device, which, if successful, would haveconsigned him to infamy, he sent Duroc in chase; andthe envoys, caught before they crossed the Maritime Alps,were brought before the general at Milan. To his vehe-ment reproaches and threats they opposed a dignifiedsilence, until Dandolo, appealing to his generosity, awak- CENTRAL EUROPB ? AFTER. THE PEACE OP CAMPIO PORMIO 1791!. ^Qara sea. •^^enemxf^ g P. ^&tBlilifSl^jra^^B&tt& The boundaries of the Holy Roman Empire are indicated hy thick Austrian Dominions are indicated by vertical Prussian Dominions are indicated by horizontal Ecclesiastical States are indicated by dotted areas. 158 THE LIFE OF NAPOLEON I chap, vii ened those nobler feelings which were never long he quietly dismissed them — to witness the downfallof their beloved city. Acribus initiis, ut ferme talia, incuriosa fine; these cyni-cal words, with which the historian of the Roman Empireblasted the movements of his age, may almost serve as theepitaph to Bonapartes early enthusiasms. Proclaimingat the beginning of his Italian campaigns that he came tofree Italy, he yet finished his course of almost unbrokentriumphs by a surrender which his panegyrists havescarcely attempted to condone. But the fate of Venicewas almost forgotten
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