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HISTORY OF EUROPE. 
for the preservation of tranquillity. 
He alleged, at the same time, the 
ancient rights of his famil; to Vene- 
tian Istria, as formerly making part 
of the Kingdom of Hungary. Se 
veral provinces, in the dependency 
of Venice, having withdrawn them- 
selves from it, he conceive! this to 
be a fit opportunity ,to assert those 
rights. This proclamation was dated 
the twenty-first of June. By this 
time, the conditions of the peace in 
agitation were well understood, by 
the French and Austrian negocia + 
_ tors: more than two months had 
been consumed in adjusting them, 
and enough had transpired to inform 
the public, that both parties con- 
curred; in dividing, between them, 
the spoils of the Venetian republic. 
Tt was not, however, till October, 
that a definitive conclusion of this 
treaty took place. Buonaparte had 
now compleated the s.ttlement of 
" every point, relating to the new 
founded republic, and to that of 
_ Genoa, now denominated Liguria, 
conformably to the disposition pre- 
vailing among the revolutionists, of 
reviving the ancient names of coun- 
tries and nations. . He returned to 
Udina, where he found the confe- 
rences not yet terminated, notwith- 
standing that he had left them, on 
his departure, in a state (at pro- 
mised.a more expeditious progress, 
as the terms of pacification were 
mutually acceded to; and as the 
only causes of farther delay, were 
_the endeavours of the Imperial 
i “court to procure the addition of 
. 
some favourable clauses, he deter- 
_ mined that no farther prolongation 
_ should be allowed for such pur- 
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_ poses. 
He signified to the plenipo- 
tentiaries of that court, that a 
speedy termination of matters was 
necessary, and would no longer be 
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deferred. They knew the decisive. 
ness of his temper, and complied 
in consequencewith his requisition. 
The treaty of peace between France 
and Austria was accordingly sign 
ed, on the seventeenth of October, 
1797, at Campo- For mio, a village 
in the vicinity o1 Udina, by Buona- 
parte, for the French republic, and 
by the marquis De G Ilo, count 
Cobentzel, count Demeerfred’, and 
baron Dagelman, the Imperial pleni- 
potentiaries. They were men of 
abilities, and had certainly exerted 
them in the course of these nego. 
ciations, as: appeared by the ad- 
vantages they obtained for Austria, 
fotwithstanding the state’ of de- 
pression to which it had been re~ 
duced. 
By this celebrated treaty, the eme 
peror ceded, in full sovereignty, to | 
the French republic, the whole of 
the Austrian Netherlands, and ccn- 
sented to their remaining in posses- 
sion of the Venetian islands.of Corfu, 
Zante, Caphalonia, and of all their 
other isles in the Adriatic, together 
with their settlements in Albania, 
situated to the south-east of the 
Gulph of Lodrino. He ackngwe 
ledged.the republic newly con- 
stituted under the name of Cisal- 
pine, to be an independent state. 
He ceded to it the sovereignty of 
the countries that. had. belonged to 
Austria in Lombardy, and assented 
to it possessing the cities and terri- 
tories of Bergamo, Brescia, and 
others, late in the dependence of 
Venice, together with the duchies 
of Mantua and Modena, the prin- 
cipalities of Massa aind Carrara, and 
the cities and territories of Bologna, 
Ferrara, and Romagna, lately be- 
longing to the pope. 
‘Tbe cessions of the French re- 
public to the PmpEME, were Istria, 
Dal- 
