[9] In a Dedication to "The Masquerade, a Poem, inscribed to Count Heidegger," (which is the production of Mr. Fielding, though foisted into the works of Dr. Arbuthnot,) the facetious writer says, "I cannot help congratulating you on that gift of Nature, by which you seem so adapted to the post you enjoy. I mean that natural masque, which is too visible a perfection to be here insisted on——and, I am sure, never fails of making an impression on the most indifferent beholder. Another gift of Nature, which you seem to enjoy in no small degree, is that modest confidence supporting you in every act of your life. Certainly, a great blessing! For I always have observed, that brass in the forehead draws gold into the pocket. As for what mankind calls virtues, I shall not compliment you on them: since you are so wise as to keep them secret from the world, far be it from me to publish them; especially since they are things which lie out of the way of your calling. Smile then (if you can smile) on my endeavours, and this little poem, with candour——for which the author desires no more gratuity than a ticket for your next ball." There is a mezzotinto of Heidegger by J. Faber, 1742, (other copies dated 1749) from a painting by Vanloo, a striking likeness, now (1785) in the possession of Peter Crawford, esq. of Cold Bath Fields.
[10] To this occurrence the following imperfect stanzas, transcribed from the hand-writing of Pope, are supposed to relate. They were found on the back of a page containing some part of his translation, either of the "Iliad" or "Odyssey," in the British Museum.
XIII.
"Then he went to the side-board, and call'd for much liquor,
And glass after glass he drank quicker and quicker;
So that Heidegger quoth,
Nay, faith on his oath,
Of two hogsheads of Burgundy, Satan drank both.
Then all like a —— the Devil appear'd,
And strait the whole tables of dishes he clear'd;
Then a friar, then a nun,
And then he put on
A face all the company took for his own.
Even thine, O false Heidegger! who wert so wicked
To let in the Devil——"
[11] Who died June 12, 1778, being then vice-admiral of the red. See Memoirs of him in Gent. Mag. 1780, p. 268.
3. Frontispiece to a Collection of Songs, with the Music by Mr. Leveridge, in two vols. 8vo. London, engraved and printed for the author, in Tavistock-street, Covent-Garden, 1727. This design consists of a Bacchus and a Venus in the Clouds, and a figure with musical instruments, &c. on the earth, soliciting their attention, &c. The ornaments round the engraved title-page seem likewise to be Hogarth's.
1728.
1. Head of Hesiod, from the bust at Wilton. The frontispiece to Cook's translation of Hesiod, in 2 vols. 4to. printed by N. Blandford for T. Green.
2. Rich's Glory, or his Triumphant Entry into Covent Garden. W. H. I. Et. SULP. Price Sixpence.