The Sun. — 1814-12-13 (London, England)

PALONELA." , We are obliged to a Morning Paper for setting us right in this respect, which it does in the following words :7.. .  " This valuable in form: tt i which the ilforzeinp Chronicle ostentatiously places in large letters in the front oeits leading article,•must be intended for the Y'oreign correspondents of whom it boasti. We in England know perfectly well that there are no such men alive as either the Marquis De FoN,. CIIIALE or the Count PALONELa. The Count-De FuNclutt, indeed, is, as he has been for a great utsinber of years? the Portuguese Minister at this Court ; and more than a year and a half ago, the Count PA tmEt..‘ arrived in Englaud to replace the Count of FtticuAt, who was named Prime Minister at his own Court :t but thb turn which about that time began to take place in Continental prospects; induced, we understand, M. De Funebal to expect the return of his Court' to Europe. and he in consequence has not resigned his mission in Env.land. But all this transaction is more than a /term old;' and .the Chronicle, we see, continues to deserve its aid reputeith,„ of being as early in its intelligence of facts as lt is accurate and well-informed of details."  Many parts of Germany, particulary Hanover, are so much infested with robbers, that it has been found necessary to send out detachmemts of military to patrole the great roads, and assign an escort of troops to the bearers of dipatehes. An Officer who belonged to the Confiance, in the' action on Lake Champlain, says that Captain DowNIE was ,killedhetore the Confiance had fired her first broadside, by a 42-pound shot passing close to him, at the lower end of the abdomen; he fell dead, without even a sigh being beard-front him. Them was not the slightest appearance of his having received any injury.  ROBBER AND ATTEMPT AT MU RDhit.—Ohl Sunday evening, about seven o'clock, as Mr. Natlr, Crossland, Sutton-street, Clerkenwell, was coining down Highgate• bill, he heard most distressing cries ; it was a very dark and rainy night ) he followed the cries to a lane leading to a firm, up which he went about 20 yards, where he found a man lying on the ground apparently in a very distressed state; he asked him several questions as to the cause of his lying there, and of his cries. It was some time before he could obtain an answer that he could understand, but at length. learned, that he had b, en robbed and wounded, and left in that helpless state; when just as he was about to raise the man up, and give him assistance, a man rushed out from behind a hedge, knocked him down with a • bludgeon upon the man on the ground, who instantly got up, and nu doubt had been lying there voluntarily, and making a noise to excite the attention of passen. gets. They stopped his mouth with a woollen cloth, and held him down while they robbed hint of Bank nbtes to the amount of 131. a watch, anti other property. They then endeavoured to mur,. der him by cutting his throat with a knife ; but Mr. Crossland struggled hard, and having a very thick neckcloth, they were prevented from effecting their bloody purpose. He tried to wrest the knife from the robbers, and eventually succeeded, but not without cutting his right hand dreadfully the villains then escaped. Mr. Crossland returned to the public road, anti found the patrole within about thirty yards from the spot Arbere the daring act had taken place, who denied having heard him call patrole or murder, and he made nu attempt to pursue the robbers. Mr. Crosaland, procured assistance, and was conducted back to Highgate, when he was supposed to be in a dying state, frog his throat having been cut, and the profusion of blood that had flowed ; but on Mr. Wetherell, a surgeon, being called in, he found it unnecessary to sew up the wound, as the windpipe had not been completely separated. Mr. Crossland is now in a fair way of doing well,