In a note touching these well-known words, MR. G. LLOYD says, "It is also
stated, I do not know on what authority, that the old and lamented warrior,
Sir Charles Napier, wrote on the conquest of Scinde, _Peccavi_!" The author
of _Democritus in London, with the Mad Pranks and Comical Conceits of
Motley and Robin Good-Fellow_, thus alludes to this saying in that work. I
presume he had good authority for so doing:
_Sir P_. "What exclaim'd the gallant Napier,
Proudly flourishing his rapier!
To the army and the navy,
When he conquer'd Scinde? '_Peccavi!_'"