HEIDEGGER. _ . 
HEIDEGGER, Jonn se in Biography, a {uccefsful 
adventurer, who arrived in England the beginning of the laft 
century, and who, by his eddrely and talents, Seonines with 
the gay and fafhionable, an important clog ey in every 
day's converfation, and news-paper. He was the fon of a 
clergyman, and a native of Zurich in Switsictend, where he 
aera, but left his country in confequence of an se 
(Anecdotes of Hogarth by Nichols.) Having had an oppor-__ 
tunity of viliting the =: cities o ae 
a tafte for elegant and re 
young people of f. 
sng of “ ay Sw ant.”” 
under th this title in +m 6 mie N: 
] 13 ; . 1 
cer’? to “the Swifs Count.” 
He had the addrefs to procure a = fbfepion, with which, in 
1709, he was enabled to furnifh out the opera of “ Thomy- 
3 = ‘Scarlatti, coe aa Ness and Albinoni. 
O Hes is: fad _* omng to ‘have {elected the airs for 
vgs 
‘Thomy dramatic writer in the dedica- 
tion ass MI 5 and likewife in that of the opera of 
«© Amadige,’’ or Amadis of Gaul, which he dedicates to 
the earl of Burlington ia a9ts, “i which he fays,. * more 
immediately claimed his lordthip’s prote@tion, as it was 
compofed in his own family, Gentis ng by Handel,” re- 
= in Burlington houfe, as his lordfhip’s maettro di cap- 
The judicious remarks which he made on feveral defeéts 
in the condu Our operas in oar and the hints which 
he threw out | ' _— re of the royal 
pour ae ehabl i Ne sta a sa critic. 
; were made to omy : ome very magnifi- 
Tent badd t nt deco which we a a n the 
ftage in confequen ace his" seo. gave mages fatisfattion to 
George If., w s fond of operas, that 
- pv inne wen 
m igre from ‘that 
hich hc” ae 
: 3g -anaintenance of ne a 
fe to ntertainment at the. 
rt se to féveral of the nobili 
fomewhat too luzurious table ; fo that it be may faid, that he 
raifed an income, but never a for ae 
is peccadillos, om Sed if t 
may be called by fo 
mild a name, were co 
rity.” 
hey 
mpletely covered”? by his *chae 
After a fuccefsful mafquerade, he has been known to wie 
mt feveral hundred pean sata time. " 
ced, 
Pe ope ; Dunciad 1. 289) calls the bird which attended on 
the goddefs—** a monfter of a fo yt fomething sg i 
pkey 2 
every fign on each fide of the parte 
As to’ his perfon, though he was tall and well mad 
it was not very eee from an nanfual hardnels of fe 
res 
ftriking rat ee now ( I TR) 3 in the etetion of Peter fase 
ford, efq ce is alfo introduced in more than one 0 
Hogarth’s prints 
But he a the firft to laugh at his own uglinefs ; 3 and dhe 
once laid a haa with the earl of Chefterfield, that, within 
a. given time, his lordfhip would not be able to pro 
duce fo hideous a face in all London. Afier ftri@ fear 
a womar Fok 
thought ftronger than Heidegger’s ; but upon fetti 
bende bi an imfelf, he = univerfally allowed to esd 
hi 
bill. ap at 4 for eva “8 =. > 
your ugly face, I will never pay you till you bring me 
uglier “Elbow than youirlelé 1? Jolly baie — retired, wrote 
his grace wifhed to fee him the next morn rd particular 
bufinefs.”” Baldcasse attended, and Jolly was there to meet 
i uo eidegger’s vifit was 
him 3 an 
confequence, as foon as 
ity and gentry, 
molt convivial, and a few hard-drinkers, heart all oad 
plot. rae ead was invited, and in a few ee the 
ner, was epee Grek stat bee 
a 
Gere cea, tase 
was likely to wear ; and then procu proca 
e-perfon, of the fue listuses fe gave him . 
