Star.
London, England, 1830-11-08 00:00:00

Tl3lB AND LOVE.

PT CAPTAIN LONONAX.

" Oh I make the most," said Time, " of hours,"
" To a fair maiden's heart;
" For seest thou those bright beaming bowers—
" There Love and thou wilt part 1
" The world acease my sober wing
" Of robbinathee of joys ;
" But mine's not half so sharp a sting
" As yonder fickle boy's.*
The maiden heeded not the strain,
But still fratu'd visions wild,
Believing Time's dali warning vain,
For at her side Love smil'd.
The bark which bore them se its freight
Now soon her anchor east 1
A h ! Maiden ! would that silent fate
Had mooed thy hopes as fast I
Love kiss'd her cheek, and leap'd on shore,
Saying," We sons shall meet;
But I have known this isle before,
And bare some friends to greet.*
He went, bat neer rettun'd to bring
His ofrring like the Dove's :
Ah ! then she learnt, Time had no sting
So sharp as fickle Love's.

" The Juvenile Forget me not," published likewise by Ackermann,
contains eleven very beautiful Engravings. The " Need of the bleat
Samuel,* by Wordsworth, from a painting by Holmes, must strike
every one es on interesting and well executed Picture. Next to that, we
I admire " The Breakfast," from SirW. Beed3er—the picture of Ander.
nach, by Finder, from Prout ; but, more than all the others, " The
Cottage Door," by A. Fox, from a painting by Hunt. There is some.
thing strikes us as peculiarly well executed in this picture, both on the
part of the engraver and the painter. The literary merit of this work
is very amusing, and completely suited to its readers.

BIOGRAPHY.

Frees the Literary Garotte.

en,—As accounts have been just received of the death of Field
Marshal Von York, Count of Wartenburgh, Le. perhaps you and the
numerous residers of your Literary Casette may be interested in know.
log that this excellent old soldier, who contributed so efficaciously to
the overthrow of Buonaparte's tyranny, was of English extraction : as
will appear by the annexed translation of a German letter, written a
few years ago to her Royal Highness the Princess Louisa of Prussia, by
the Field. Marshal himself.

Yours, ac.

" The last of my ancestors in England was David Jonathan Yorke.
my great-grandfather: he left England in the time of the persecutions
of Cromwell, about the year 1650 (after the battle of Worcester,) or
soon after. lie went, with several of his countrymen, and one pant.
cider friend, Leslie, to Sweden, and married there an heiress, the Baro.
ness Byern, who lost her fortune by a law.suit, which was unfaranately
decided in the lifetime of my father. My grandfather took service in
the army of Charles XIL and followed his military career till the year
1715, when he married the Polish Countess Kossniecka, who had an
estate 113 the part of Pomerania belonging then to Poland. From that
time my family were established in Germany. My grandfather had
lye sons, who all served in the Prussian army ; and four of them died
on the field of honour in the Seven Yeirs' War, two at the battle of
Leutken, one at Kunersdorf, end one at Pripet. My father, born in
year 1719, died In the year 1784, as captain out of service. The Che-
valier Yorke (the late Lord Dover,) English minister at the Hague in
the yes: 1780, was Mated to my fimily ; and I went in the same year
with letters of resemmendadon to meet with him, and by his interom-
ska to return to the British lard= bin she C►nalier had left the
Ithias before my arrival t and I took service in the Ditch army. MI
,thein particulars ?told to Lord Hardwick., when, to they!ar 1814,1. was
in London ; and these I only know by tradition, and no documents sa-
llied in my family since the time of my grandfather's establishment in
Germany."