They subscribed to the loan.

They laboured at the outworks.

But from the moment the appointment of Taddeo Giustiniani was announced, they grew sullen.

It was not that they objected to the new captain general, who was a popular nobleman, but every man felt that something more than this was required, in such an emergency, and that the best man that Venice could produce should be at the helm.
The sailors of the port were the first to move in the matter, and shouts for Vettore Pisani were heard in the streets.

Others took up the cry, and soon a large multitude assembled in the Piazza, and with menacing shouts, demanded that Pisani should be freed and appointed.