I wish I could see clearly about Venetia.

There are intelligent and thoughtful Italians who are hopeful even for Venetia, and certainly, the Emperor of Austria's offer to Tuscany (not made to the Assembly, as the 'Times' said, but murmured about by certain agents) implies a consciousness on his part of holding Venetia, with a broken _wrist_ at least.
As to the Duchies never for a moment did I believe in armed intervention.

Napoleon distinctly with his own lips promised our delegates, after the peace, and before he left Italy, that he would neither do it nor permit it.

And afterwards, in Paris, again and again.
He accepted the Austrian proposition under the condition simply that the Dukes were recalled by the people, not in defiance of the popular will.

He has been loyal throughout both to Austria and to Italy, and to his own original programme, which did not contemplate dispossessing sovereigns but freeing peoples.
Italy for the Italians--and so it will be.