See _Count Benyowsky_ again; from which play this and the preceding references are taken word for word. We acquit the Germans of such reprobate silly stuff. It must be the translator’s. Footnote 283: We believe this song to be copied, with a small variation in metre and meaning, from a song in _Count Benyowsky; or, the Conspiracy of Kamschatka_, where the conspirators join in a chorus, _for fear of being overheard_. [Footnote: AD SIRMIONEM PENINSULAM. [284]Peninsularum Sirmio, Insularumque, Ocelle! quascunque in liquentibus stagnis, Marique vasto fert uterque Neptunus; [285]Quam te libenter, quamque lætus inviso, Vix mi ipse credens Thyniam, atque Bithynos Liquisse campos,[286] et videre te in tuto. [287]O quid solutis est beatius curis Cum mens onus reponit, ac peregrino Labore fessi venimus larem ad nostrum. [288]Desideratoque acquiescimus lecto? Hoc est, quod unum est pro laboribus tantis. [289]Salve! O venusta Sirmio! atque hero gaude; Gaudete! vosque Lydiæ lacus undæ; Ridete[290] quicquid est domi cachinnorum! ® Footnote 291: [The following _Letter_ probably alludes to the _Association for promoting the Discovery of the interior parts of Africa_, of which Sir John Sinclair was the presiding genius. “The result of their labours,” says Hugh Murray, in his Account of African Discoveries, “has thrown new lustre on the British name, and widely extended the boundaries of human knowledge.”—ED.] Footnote 292: [Buonaparte’s Bulletin.—ED.] Footnote 293: [SIR JOHN SINCLAIR, the celebrated author of the _History of the Public Revenue, the Statistical Account of Scotland_, and many useful agricultural and other works.—ED.] Footnote 294: [Dr. Parr’s noted Latin Preface to his edition of _Bellendenus de Statu_. T. De Quincey, in his famous dissection of Dr. Parr and his writings, beseeches the “gentle reader” of Bellendenus to pronounce the penultimate syllable _short_, and _not long_, as is usually done.—ED.] Footnote 295: [_I.e._, from BOB ADAIR, _a dull fool_, to NICHOLL [Nicholls], _a wretched goose_.—ED.] Footnote 296: [Sir Geo. Aug. Wm. Shuckburgh, M.P., F.R.S., author of papers in the Phil. Trans.—ED.] Footnote 297: [Sir John Sinclair.—ED.] Footnote 298: [The following are Dr. Darwin’s instructions for the _transportation of Ice Islands_:—