The Ecclesiastical States are indicated by dotted areas.] The advice was useless.

The Venetian democrats determined on a last desperate venture.

They secretly sent three deputies, among them Dandolo, with a large sum of money wherewith to bribe the Directors to reject the treaty of Campo Formio.

This would have been quite practicable, had not their errand become known to Bonaparte.

Alarmed and enraged at this device, which, if successful, would have consigned him to infamy, he sent Duroc in chase; and the envoys, caught before they crossed the Maritime Alps, were brought before the general at Milan.