After more than a thousand years of independence, that city was abandoned to the Emperor by the very general who had promised to free Italy.

It was in vain that Bonaparte strove to soothe the provisional government of that city through the influence of a Venetian Jew, who, after his conversion, had taken the famous name of Dandolo.

Summoning him to Passeriano, he explained to him the hard necessity which now dictated the transfer of Venice to Austria.

France could not now shed any more of her best blood for what was, after all, only "a moral cause": the Venetians therefore must cultivate resignation for the present and hope for the future.
[Illustration: CENTRAL EUROPE AFTER THE PEACE OF CAMPO FORMIO, 1797 The boundaries of the Holy Roman Empire are indicated by thick dots.
The Austrian Dominions are indicated by vertical lines.

The Prussian Dominions are indicated by horizontal lines.