Norfolk Gazette And Publick Ledger

London, Jan. 19.

We mentioned on Saturday the mission to the North which general Hope has been appointed to execute, and we presumed to say that a fitter choice could hardly be made. This mission, we have reason to believe, is of a more comprehensive nature than we first announced. It is understood that in the states of Eastern Prussia a provincial government will be instituted, to act under the name of the king, but not to resort to him while he is obviously under Gallic restraint. Gen. Hope, therefore, in the first instance, we have reason to believe, will proceed to those states and endeavor to invigorate their decisions by the aid of British councils and co-operation in any measure calculated to rescue the continent from its present degrading submission to the French usurper. It is confidently said, that in order to promote this most important purpose, a proclamation will be addressed to the Prussian, and most of the German states, particularly Westphalia, exhorting them to throw off the yoke of oppression, promising them the protection of this country and of the emperor Alexander, if they are decided in their efforts, and a full restoration of their former establishments. The emperor of Russia's visit to Wilna is for the furtherance of this object, and if Austria should be disposed heartily to co-operate on this important occasion, it would of course involve the destiny of Poland, and contribute to the establishment of that country as an independent monarchy.

Accounts received from Konigsberg, by the way of Germany, state the arrival there of seventy generals, forty colonels, and about one thousand other officers, without troops, or hardly any, who have reached that capital some on horseback, some on foot, and all in the most wretched situation. The same accounts which are quite authentic, mention the arrival of Murat with two battalions of the French guards, which however contained only two companies of 150 men each. It is said that the few French soldiers who were at Konigsberg, refused to mount guard before the lodging of the officers, so much are they enraged with the abandonment of the latter.

The above is confirmed by several other letters which state, that the Russians entered Memel on the 27th Dec. and were expected at Konigsberg on the 3d Jan. It was acknowledged by the French officers, that after the affairs at Kow no the remains of their army were entirely dispersed. At Berlin the people had shewn great symptoms of resistance to the French; the country people refused to proceed with the officers baggage, and there had been scuffles in the streets with the soldiers. In Hesse and Westphalia great discontents appeared, which were directed against Jerome Bonaparte.

A mail from Gottenburgh also arrived yesterday, by which we received a variety of important Russian Bulletins. There was never perhaps in Europe, a more rapid succession of important events than during the last few months; and the mind has scarcely time to reflect on one occurrence before its attention is arrested by another of at least equal magnitude and interest. Not only have the Russians possessed themselves of Memel and Konigsberg, but they are already on their way to Dantzic and Berlin. The remnant of the once grand army is annihilated, and even the skeleton of the corps from which the Prussians so patriotically separated themselves, cannot now be expected to escape the common fate. Indeed some private letters state that its surrender has already taken place. The Copenhagen articles and the report from Admiral Tchiehagoff, depict in strong colors, the losses, privations, and miseries all kinds, encountered by the enemy—a great number were frozen to death; others threw away their arms, and would fight no longer; many fainted with fatigue and want; many went over to the Russians. The roads are described as choked with the dead and dying, carriages, cannon, baggage arms, &c. A variety of private letters come in, stating that the Russians were very shortly expected at Berlin, and that the unfortunate king of Prussia was to go to Breslaw, with 5,000 men, or, in other words, was to be carried off a prisoner by a French force, in order to make use of the authority of his name against the acts of any provisional government established in the Prussian territories, under the auspices of Russia. The greatest exertions are making in Russia to increase the military force of that Empire. A new levy has been ordered of 300,000 men to be raised within a month, thus presenting a force which may set at defiance any future efforts of France; a force consisting of men whose hearts and minds are enthusiastically attached to the cause in which they are called upon to fight. The men are at hand, and anxiously wait the signal to join their brethren in arms. What may not the presence of such an army effect in Europe! The tyrant of France may levy upon paper, but his decree can only produce reluctant conscripts, filled with despair, and looking only to destruction, animated by no common principle, but losing all courage and firmness, in the consciousness that they are merely the servile tools of their leader's lawless ambition, and that he will basely desert them in the hour of danger, whenever it suits his own convenience, utterly regardless of their miseries or their sufferings.