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strip of Sutorina. On the fall of the Republic in 1797, the Austrians occupied the Bocche without encountering resistance; but the inhabitants put up a stout defence against the French and, with the help of their highland neighbours of Montenegro, they drove Marmont’s troops down the slopes of Lovden, and only the peace of Tilsit gave France the possession of Cattaro. The English commander, (Sir) William Hoste, received the capitulation of Cattaro at the hands of the French commander Gautier in 1813, and at once handed the town to the Prince of Montenegro, who, however, ceded his rights, and Cattaro passed under Austrian rule in 1814. The Bocche and Cattaro are now included in the Serb - Croat - Slovene kingdom.
  Castelnuovo, dominated by Tuartko’s ruined fortress on a rock overhanging the sea, bears as its arms a castle wall and gateway surmounted by a tower, flying a flag, and flanked by two cypresses. Its site is extremely picturesque and its vegetation luxuriant. Down by the shore, at the foot of Tuartko’s rock, there used to stand a charming house in the style of a Venetia casa di campagna, of the late seventeenth century, with a staircase and iron balustrade leading up to