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The last Mohammedan Conspiracy in India.

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(From the homeward Mail, August 29.)
By the previous mail we learned that the appeal of the
11 Mohammedans who were convicted some months since
before Sir Herbert Edwards, the Session Judge of Umbella,
of conspiracy to overthrow British rule in India, was being
proceeded with in the Court of the Judicial Commissioner
of the Punjab, at Lahore. `lra have now before us the
judgment from which the appeal was made, but its extra-
ordinary length—extraordinary even for an Indian official
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sessing no interest, unless merely in so far as they contri-
bute to bring their guilt home to the prisoners—have led
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way of indicating how conspiracies of this sort are got up,
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How the Bengalees fared at Mulkah, some of the wit-
nesses are at pains to tell us. Almost immediately on their
arrival swords and muskets were served out to them, and
they were ordered on drill. To some of them—especially to
those who had gone to feast their eyes on the great Imam
who had been preached to them in the plains—drill seems
to have been anything but a delight ; but hard knocks were
the inevitable portion of all who refused it. Many were the
deserters who escaped back into British territory, some of
whom, we are told, the Indian Government, with question-
able liberality, forwarded to their homes at its own expense.
But enough. How the Sitanees fared at the hands of
British troops is already matter of Indian history; and we
have merely endeavoured to indicate litre the means by
which for a long time they were recruited with men and
money out of the heart of British territory, unknown to the
Indian Government. " One of the strangest features in the
correspondence laid before the court in this trial is the
widespread diffusion through the Mohammedan villages of
Bengal, not only of the knowledge of this treason and
of the machinery at Patna by which it was carried on, but
also of thi, feeling of a religious duty to aid it either with
men or money—all this taking effect in a snail but
constant stream of sons, brothers, nephews, and cousins
leaving home as recruits to the west—flowing into
Patna, trickling through the North-west Provinces and
the Punjab, in small, but noticeable detachments, putting
up in the public serais and mu.,jids, being ferried over the
rivers, reaching the Afghan hills, and thence correspond-
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In May, 1863, Ghuzzun Khan, a Sikh sergeant of
mounted police, who during the mutinies had deserved well
of the British raj, fell in with four travellers, apparently on
a journey from Umballa down towards Delhi. The keen-
eyed sergeant at once detected re them a resemblance to the
prisoners captured by our troops in their skirmishes on the
frontier with the Sittana Hindustanis. By way of testing
his suspicions, he entered into conversation with them,
and soon discovered that they were on an embassy from
Syud Abdoolah—the leader of the Mulkah Sittanees—to
his friends in Bengal. Relying on the importance of his
discoveries, Ghuzzun Khan deemed himself justified in
arresting the travellers, and having sent them before a
magistrate—Mr C. Stephen—requested that they might be
summoned to state what he know about them. This re-
quest was unheeded by the magistrate who discharged the
prisoners, merely recording on the back of the report sent
to him by Ghuzzan Khan, that it is " plain the men were
merely travellers." Had the magistrate taken the trouble
to inquire, he would have found that they were not merely
travellers, but emissaries of sedition as well.
The Sikh sergeant, naturally hurt at the slight attention
paid to him by the magistrate, was thereby impelled to in-
vestigate the matter still further ; and about two months
afterwards commissioned his son in Eusofzye, to attach
himself to the Mulkah Sittanees, and find out who and
where .their friends were in British territory. The son,
Feroz Khan by name, seems to have performed his
father's commission admirably; he remained with the Sit
tanees ten days, and even accompanied them in an attack
upon Kubbul, a village on the left bank of the Indus,
owned by a chief having friendly relations with the British,
and who was consequently obnoxious to the fanatics of
Mulkah. Here he left them, but not before having dis-
covered that their great friend was Mohammed Jaffir, of
Thanesur, a pleaderin the Umballa courts,a stamp-seller:and
petition writer, who added to those avocations the more im-
portant one of agent for the transmission of men and
materiel to the fanatics in the hills. The Sikhs, father and
son, now appeared before Captain Moseley, and urged him
to test the correctness of the information they had thus ob-
tained in regard to the doings of the Umballa pleader.
At length, on Dec. 12, a descent was made by the police
upon Jaffir's house at Thanesur, and his books and papers
seized. He was arrested himself a few days afterwards,
after having led the police a chase of some 200 miles.
Among his papers was found a sort of autobiography, from
which, as well as from the testimony of witnesses, it was
found that Jaffir had fought against us at Delhi, in the
character of a ghazee, that is a Mohammedan pledged to do
or die in the cause of Islam. Jaffir's papers also furnished
a clae to the other conspirators, all of whom were seized;
but the ringleaders, Mohammed Shuffee, of Umballa, and
Yahiya Ali, a man of great influence in Patna, need only be
mentioned here. The importance of the role played by
Mohammed Shuffee we can appreciate when we come to
consider the fact that he held the meat contract for the
supply of the European troops, not only at Umballa. but
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office; not without caution nor concealment certainly, but
with long-continued norm' and impunity—till one honest
native, and he from the Afghan border, tells an English
magistrate; and then has hard work to get believed I"
The above commentary of Sir Herbert Edwardes may aptly
conclude this sketch of the last Mohammedan conspiracy;
but we cannot resist the temptation of directing attention
to the Sikh policeman, Ghuzzhun Khan, who has proved
himself " faithful to his salt," and deserving of considera-
tion from those by whom he is employed.

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down for marking out the passage across the river.
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measured up and the accounts with the contractor
were agreed upon. The capital account to July 31
last showed a total receipt of £304,667, and an ea•
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Sealkote, Rawul Pindee, Attock, and Nowshera; and by
means of his agents in these places was able to forward to
the hills men and money without attracang suspicion.
But the two Umbella conspirators, Mohammed Jaffir and
Shuffee, seem merely to have contented themselves with
the part of agents to their more active brethren of Patna—
whence emissaries were sent to all parts of Bengal
to preach the Crescentade, or Mohammedan. holy
war, the converts or recruits being forwarded in the first
instance to Patna and thence on the way to Delhi and Urn-
balls to the hills. One of these emissaries we will take as a
sample of the others. Oosman Khan, native of 24-Pergun-
nahs, while in Jessore, received money from the Nazir of
the Judge's Court to go upon a mission among the Moham-
medans to collect money, and to induce all likely men to go
on a crescentade against the infidels. This mission, judging
from the glowing terms in which the preacher himself de-
scribes it, must have been an eminently successful one.
" The Mohammedans," ho says, "in this part of the coun-
try, seem to have an excellent idea of the purpose for which
I have came ; and are obedient"—which latter clause of the
sentence may be interpreted, " are eager to rebel." " There
is nothing," he says further on, "to be compared to this
sort of life. From 25 to 30 men join me in prayers," i.e., in
sedition, "five times a day. This is the result of my having
undertaken God's work, otherwise I am not deserving of so
much distinction." We may mention, in passing, that this
preacher of rebellion saved himself from a less pleasant
. . . . _

distinction by turning Queen's evidence. And not only did
he employ himself in procuring recruits, but also in collect-
ing money, of which he was enabled to remit a goodly sum
to the central propaganda in Patna.

After a time spent in this pious war, he bethought of pay-
ing a visit to his employers. And here we may as well
admit our readers to a glimpse of the way in which these
worthies carried on their business at headquarters; Oosman
Khan and others of his follow-preachers helping us to the
description.

In the Sadik poor street of Patna stand a group of houses
which includes the residence of Ahmudoola, member of the
Municipal Committee; of his relative, Yahiya Ali, the
High Priest ; of another conspirator, Abdool Raheem ; and
also embraces the Mohammedan Ilafila, or hospice, with
its place of prayer and its garden. 'There is a public en-
trance from the street, and between the houses there is
private communication—showing upon what close terms
the inmates lived. Here Syud Abdoolah—leader of the
Sittanees in the late war on the Ensufzye frontier
—drew his inspiration; and here until lately were pre-
served the commendatory letters of Syud Ahmed—a fanatic
above proof—who disturbed the Sikh frontier from 1824
to 1830, and whose followers are still numerous,
especially in Patna, and generally in Bengal. And it was
among these that the crescentade preachers appear to have
gained the most recruits, by persuading them that it was
"good for the soul" to go and witness the avatar of the
Syud "in the hills beyond Pindee." At all events, since
the days of Syud Ahmed these houses in the street of
Sadikpoor would appear to have been a hot-bed of sedi-
tion as well as of Wahabee fanaticism.

During the years 1861-62.63, this Mohammedan hospice
was the rendezvous of pilgrims from all parts of Bengal;
it has been stated in evidence that as many as 200 were
there at a time. In the fictitious language of the con-
spirators, these pilgrims, or recruits, were called .g mer-
chants ;" but it has been recorded that the "merchants"
were always rejected when found to be too old. During
their stay at the hospice—which generally lasted four or
five days—. they received food, instruction of a certain
kind, and were preached to several times a day by the
High Priest—who, besides preaching, seems also to have
had an immense correspondence on his hands. The re-
cruits, so soon as they effervesced to a fitting pitch of fana-
ticism, were despatched in kafilas, or companies of from five
to ten men, in the direction of the north-west.
But not
empty-handed. Each man received his travelling ex-
penses; and the more devoted ones—those whose faith was
looked upon as impregnable—had gold raohura and
hoondees for thousands of rupees quilted into their jackets
—to be transferred at Umballa to the meat contractor, and
by him forwarded to the hills " where the Patna people
are." Ey this means, in the course of a year or so, the
Mohammedans remitted not less than £lO,OOO to the
frontier. How the money was obtained, we need not
marvel, if we consider that Oosman Khan and the other
crescentade apostles had no difficulty in sending to Patna
sums of 150 rupees at a time.

How these companies of Bengalees—there seem to have
been often as many as two or three kaflas despatched in a
week—made the long journey between Fatna and the
_ _

Punjab frontier without attracting observation, is suffi-
ciently remarkable—but it will appear even more so when
we come to find that some of them publicly preached
sedition in the towns and villages as they welt. We are
treated to a picture of a well-to-do Mussulman from

lessors, jogging north-westward on his own steed, Hudi-

bras .like. and going out of his way, whenever he felt AO
inclined, to infuse his own spirit into his con-religionists.
This worthy put up at all the comfortable serail ; he was

to be met—accompanied by a dozen prospective martyrs
for Islam—on the way from Thanesur to Umballa—he was

to be seen quietly loitering on the Anarkallee Serai at
Lahore, and going thence in his palkee-gharree to the
frontier. Some perhaps may be disposed to think

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judicial temperament when ho paints this Mussul-
man knighterrant going on crescentado in a post-
chaise, and eagerly availing himself on his journey
of all the protection and advantages afforded by that very
Nazarene Government which he was bent on a mission to
destroy. But the rank and file of the crescentaders travelled
in a much less corniortable manner, and were kept from
attracting suspicion in the towns ehero they stopped, by
being dispersed in twos and threes among the serais and
mudjids—to which they were conducted by local agents,
who seem to have been employed for the purpose by the '
Patna Moulvecs, and who usually succeeded in recognising
the pilgrims through a rough process of freemasonry.
Arrived at Rawul Pindee, they were met by emissaries from
Mulkah Sittana, who at once conducted them to their
destination.