afcending the gallery, and kicking the musicians out; but the late duke of Cumberland, who could hardly contain himself, interpofed. The company were thrown into great confufion. Shame! Shame!" refounded from all parts, and Heidegger once more flew in a violent rage to that part of the theatre facing the gallery. Here the duke of Montagu, artfully addreffing himfelf to him, told him," the king was in a violent paffion; that his best way was to go inftantly and make an apology, for certainly the muficians were mad, and afterwards to discharge. them." Almoft at the fame inftant, he ordered the falfe Hei degger to do the fame. The fcene now became truly comic in the circle before the king. Heidegger had no fooner made a genteel apology for the infolence of his musicians, but the falfe Heidegger advanced, and, in a plaintive tone, cried out, "Indeed, Sire, it was not my fault, but that devil's in my likeness." Poor Heidegger turned round, ftared, ftaggered, grew pale, and could not utter a word. The duke then humanely whispered in his ear the fum of his plot, and the counterfeit was ordered to take off his mafk. Here ended the frolic; but Heidegger fwore he would never attend any public amufement, if that witch the wax-work woman did not break the mould, and melt down the mafk before his face [G]. A Being once at fupper with a large company, when a question was debated, which nation of Europe had the greatest ingenuity; to the furprise of all prefent, he claimed that character for the Swifs, and appealed to himfelf for the truth of it. "I was born a Swifs," faid he, "and came to England without a farthing, where I have found means to gain 5000l. a year, and to fpend it. Now I defy the most able Englishman to go to Switzerland, and either to gain that income, or to spend it there." He died Sept. 4, 1749, at the advanced age of 90 years, at his houfe at Richmond in Surrey, where he was buried. He left behind him one natural daughter, mifs Pappet, who was married Sept. 2, 1750, to captain (afterwards fir Peter) Denis [H]. [G] To this occurrence the following imperfect ftanzas, tranfcribed from the hand-writing of Pope, are fuppofed to relate. They were found on the back of a page containing fome part of his tranflation, either of the "Iliad," or "" Odyffey," in the British Museum. XIII. Then he went to the fide-board, and call'd for much liquor, And glafs after glass he drank quicker and So that Heidegger quoth, Of two hogfheads of Burgundy, Satan drank both. Then all like a the Devil appear'd, Then a friar, then a nun, A face all the company took for his own. To let in the Devil [H] Who died June 12, 1778, being then vice-admiral of the red. See memoirs of him in Gent. Mag. 1780, p 268. Part Part of this lady's fortune was a houfe at the north-weft corner of Queen-fquare, Ormond-street, which fir Peter afterwards fold to the late Dr. Campbell, and purchased a feat in Kent, plea fantly fituated near Weftram, then called Valence, but now (by its prefent proprietor, the earl of Hillsborough) Hill Park. HEINECCIUS (JOHN-GOTLIEB), a German lawyer, was born at Eifemberg in 1681, and trained in the study of philo fophy and law. He became profeffor of philofophy at Hall, in 1710, and of law in 1721, with the title of counfellor. In 1724, he was invited to Franeker; and, three years after, the king of Pruffia influenced him to accept the law-profefforfhip at Francfort upon the Oder. Here he continued till 1733, when the fame prince almoft forced him to refume the chair at Hall, where he remained till his death in 1741, although he had ftrong invitations from Denmark, Holland, &c. His principal works (for they are numerous) are, 1. "Antiquitatum Romanorum Jurifprudentiam illuftrantium fyntagma." The best edition of which is the fifth, published at Leward in 1777. 2. "Elementa Juris Civilis fecundum ordinem Inftitutionum & Pandectarum,” 2 vols. 8vo. 3. "Elementa Philofophiæ Rationalis & Mo"Elementa_Philofophiæ ralis, quibus præmiffa hiftoria Philofophica." This is reckoned a good abridgment of logic and morality. 4. "Hiftoria Juris Civilis, Romani ac Germanici." 5. "Elementa Juris Naturæ & Gentium." 6. « Fundamenta ftyli Cultioris;" a work of his youth, but much approved, and often reprinted, with notes by Gefner and others. Alfo feveral academic differtations upon various fubjects. His works were publifhed collectively at Geneva in 1744, and form eight volumes in quarto. HEINECKEN (CHRISTIAN HENRY), a child, greatly celebrated for the wonderfully premature developement of his talents, was born at Lubeck, Feb. 6, 1721, and died there, June 27, 1725, after having difplayed the most amazing proofs of intellectual powers. He could talk at ten months old, and scarcely had completed his first year of life, when he already knew and recited the principal facts contained in the five books of Mofes, with a number of verses on the creation; at 13 months he knew the history of the Old Teftament, and the New at 14; in his 30th month, the hiftory of the nations of antiquity, geography, anatomy, the ufe of maps, and nearly 8000 Latin words. Be.. fore the end of his third year, he was well acquainted with the hiftory of Denmark, and the genealogy of the crowned heads of Europe; in his fourth year, he had learned the doctrines of divinity, with their proofs from the Bible; ecclefiaftical history; the inftitutes; 200 hymns, with their tunes; 80 pfalms; entire chapters of the Old and New Teftament; 1500 verfes and fentences from an cient Latin claffics; almoft the whole Orbis Pictus of Come nius, whence he had derived all his knowledge of the Latin language; arithmetic; the history of the European empires and kingdoms; kingdoms; could point out in the maps whatever place he was afked for, or paffed by in his journies, and recite all the ancient and modern hiftorical anecdotes relating to it. His stupendous memory caught and retained every word he was told: his ever active imagination used, whatever he faw or heard, instantly to apply fome examples or fentences from the Bible, geography, profane or ecclefiaftical history, the Orbis Pictus, or from ancient claffics. At the court of Denmark, he delivered twelve speeches without once faultering; and underwent public examinations on a variety of subjects, especially the hiftory of Denmark. He fpoke German, Latin, French, and Low Dutch, and was exceedingly good-natured and well-behaved, but of a most tender and delicate bodily conftitution; never ate any folid food, but chiefly fubfifted on nurses milk, not being weaned till within a very few months of his death, at which time he was not quite four years old. There is a differtation on this child, published by M. Martini at Lubeck, in 1730, where the author attempts to affign the natural causes for the astonishing capacity of this great man in embryo, who was just shewn to the world, and fnatched away. HEINSIUS (DANIEL), a celebrated scholar and critic, profeffor of politics and history at Leyden, and alfo librarian of the univerfity there, was born at Ghent in Flanders, May 1580, of an illuftrious family, who had poffeffed the first places in the magiftracy of that town. He was frequently removed in the younger part of his life. He began his ftudies at the Hague, and afterwards went with his parents into Zeland, where he was inftructed in polite literature and philofophy. He comprehended very well the principles of morality and politics, but did not relifh logic, and had an unconquerable averfion to grammar. He difcovered early a strong propenfity to poetry, and began to make verses, before he knew any thing of profody or the rules of art. He compofed a regular elegy, at ten years of age, upon the death of a play-fellow; and there are feveral epigrams and little poems of his, which were written when he was not above twelve, and fhew a great deal of genius and facility. He is reprefented, however, as having been a very idle boy, and not likely to make any progress in Greek and Latin learning; on which account his father fent him, at fourteen years of age, to ftudy the law in the univerfity of Franeker. But from that time, as if he had been influenced by a spirit of contradiction, nothing would please him but claffics; and he applied himfelf there to Greek and Latin authors, as obftinately as he had rejected them in Zeland. He afterwards removed to Leyden, where he became a pupil of Jofeph Scaliger; and was obliged to the encouragement and care of that great man for the perfec tion to which he afterwards arrived in literature, and which at the beginning of his life there was fo little reason to expect. He published an edition of "Silius Italicus," in 1600; and he added to it notes of his own, which he called "Crepundia Siliana," to fhew that they were written when he was extremely young. He was made Greek profeffor at eighteen, and afterwards fucceeded Scaliger in the profefforfhip of politics and hiftory. When he was made librarian to the university, he pronounced a Latin oration, afterwards published, in which he defcribed the duties of a librarian, and the good order and condition in which a library fhould be kept. He died Feb. 25, 1655, after having done great honour to himself and country by various works of ability and learning. He diftinguished himself as a critic by his labours upon Silius Italicus, Theocritus, Hefiod, Seneca, Homer, Hefychius, Theophraftus, Clemens Alexandrinus, Ovid, Livy, Terence, Horace, Prudentius, Maximus Tyrius, &c. He published two treatifes "De Satira Horatiana," which Balzac affirms to be mafter-pieces in their way. He wrote poems in various languages, which have been often printed, and always admired. He was the author of several profe works, fome of which were written in an humorous and fatirical manner; as "Laus Afini," "Laus Pediculi," &c. The learned have all joined in their praifes of Heinfius. Gerard Voffius fays, that he was a very great man; and calls him the ornament of the Mufes and the Graces. Caufabon admires him equally for his parts and learning. Pareus calls him the Varro of his age. Barthius ranks him with the first writers. Bochart pronounces him a truly great and learned man; and Selden fpeaks of him, as tam feveriorum quam ❝amoniorum literarum fol;" a light to guide us in our gay as well as fevere purfuits in letters. Some however have thought, that he was not fo well formed for criticism; and Le Clerc, in his account of the Amfterdam edition of Bentley's "Horace,' has the following paffage: "Daniel Heinfius," fays he, "was doubtless a learned man, and had fpent his life in the study of criticism. Yet, if we may judge by his Horace, he was by no means happy in his conjectures, of which our author Bentley has admitted only one, if my memory does not deceive me; for I cannot recollect the place where he paffes this judgement of Daniel Heinfius. But he speaks much more advantageously of his fon Nicolas Heinfius; who, though not fo learned a man as his father, had yet a better tafte for criticifm [1]." We must not forget to obferve, that Daniel Heinfius was highly honoured abroad as well as at home; and received uncommon marks of refpect from foreign potentates. Guftavus Adolphus, king of Sweden, gave him a place among his coun [1] Bibl. Cholf, XXVI. P. 262. fellors: fellors of state: the republic of Venice made him a knight of their order of St. Mark: and pope Urban VIII. was fuch an admirer of his fine talents and confummate learning, that he made him great offers, if he would come to Rome; to rescue that city from barbarism," as the pontiff is said to have expreffed himself. HEINSIUS (NICOLAS), the fon of Daniel, was born at Leyden in 1620, and became as great a Latin poet, and a greater critic than his father. His poems have been several times printed but the best edition is that of Amfterdam, 1666. Some have admired them fo much, as to think him worthy to be called "The Swan of Holland." He wrote notes upon, and gave editions of, Virgil, Ovid, Valerius Flaccus, Claudian, Pruden tius, &c. Bentley, in a note upon Horace, 2 Sat. vi. 108. calls his edition of Virgil," editio caftigatiffima." His Claudian is dedicated, in a Latin poem, to Chriftina queen of Sweden; and his Ovid to Thuanus. At his death, which happened at the Hague in 1681, he difowned all his works, and expreffed the utmost regret at having left behind him fo many “Monuments of his vanity," as he called them. Nicolas Heinfius was as much diftinguished by his great employments in the state, as he was by his parts and learning. All the learned of his time speak well of him; and he is reprefented as having been poffeffed of good qualities as well as great ones. HELE (THOMAS), by birth an Englishman, arrived at the fingular diftinction of being admired in France as a writer in the French language. He was born in Gloucefterfhire about the year 1740. He began his career in the army, and served in Jamaica till the peace of 1763. A defire of feeing the moft remarkable parts of Europe, now carried him into Italy, where he was fo captivated with the beauty of the climate, and the innumerable objects of liberal curiofity which presented them felves, that he continued there feveral years. About the year 1770, having fatisfied his curiofity in Italy, he turned his thoughts to France, and went to Paris. There alfo he ftudied the ftate of the arts, and was particularly attentive to the theatre. At length he began to write for the Italian comedy, which had principally attracted his notice, and wrote with confiderable fuccefs. The pieces for that theatre are written chiefly in French, with French titles, and only one or two characters in Italian. He wrote, 1. "Le Jugement de Midas," on the con teft between French and Italian mufic, which was much ap plauded. But his 2. "Amant jaloux," had still more fuccefs, 3. His third piece," Les Evenemens imprevus," met with some exceptions, on which he modeftly withdrew it, and after making the corrections fuggested, brought it forward again, and had the pleasure to find it much approved. The comedies of this writer aro |