The Sun.
London, England, 1846-03-06 00:00:00

THE CONSPIRACY AT DINAPORE.

A few days before Christmas-day a native officer of the Ist
Regiment of Native Infantry reported to Major llowcroft,
that certain persons bad been tampering with the men of his
them money,
giving them
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R,,wer„et, gave immediately notice to the civil authorities at
Perna, which led to the speedy arrest of a regimental moon-
shee, of the name of Peer Buksh. The confession which
he made on being examined led to the apprehension of
Said Reheat Alle, a discarded deputy collector, and
long a well-known Radical. of Patna. llis papers were
seized
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isimultaneously
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examination
became
apparent that the Said
himself and Khwaje Ilussun Allee Khan, a native gentle-
mana of some property in the Gyan and Chapra districts,
conspirators. a p
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found on Raahaat Alice, with some 100 signatures, binding
the subscribers to uphold their religion against all attempts
of .the Goveuninent to subvert it. It appeared also, in the
course of the investigation, that reports had been indus-
triously circulated among the villagesin the interior of
the several districts of Behr!, that on a certain date (the
20th of this month, we believe),, the different magistrates
would issue orders to all their I hannahs, prohibiting cir-
cumcision, and forcing the Ilindoos to eat together generally.
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It is Lot ascertained, as far as our information goes, whether
the " Patna plot " had any connexion, as previously surmised,
with native states, though it is believed not. But it is be-
yond a doubt that letters have been intercepted, throwing
light on intrigues against our supremacy, which may here-
after lead to further discoveries. Khwaje Ilutsun Allee
Khan has managed to abscond, and all his landed property
has very properly been attached by the local authorities.
Upwards of 100 tulwars were found in his house, and both lie
and the Said Raaliaat Allee had by them sums of money,
wrapped in sloth, exactly corresponding with the pay of the
Suwara and native officers of the different grades in the
British irregular cavalry. The principal native police officer
in the city of Patna, Meer Mehemet' Bakur, was found to
have visited the station of one of these corps, and to have
been intriguing with some of the native officers, in the hope
of inducing them to join in the conspiracy, be was assisting
to hatch. Shah Kubbur-ood-deep, Sasseram, is suspected,
but nothing has yet been proved against him ; be is, pending
further investigation, kept under surveillance in his awn
house at Arran. Said:Raalint Alee distinguished himself
some years ago as taking an active part against the resump•
tion laws, and has ever since been the chief instigator in
every petition or complaint that has been made against any
of the officers of Government. Copies of all these petitions
have been found in his sheristech. He and the other mal-
contents have, it appears, takon advantage of the opening
given by the late gaol disturbances, to excite the native pub-
lic mind against the Government, and have, most likely, en-
tertained sonic faint hopes of the reverses in the far (rest
giving them a chance of disturbing the peace in their own
neighbourhood for a little while at least. Mr. Ravenshaw,
the commissioner, has taken upon himself to stop some of
the regiments that were proceeding up the country, and has
ordered four companies of the 66th to be posted at Patna.
Ono company of the Ist N. I. is at Gyah. The Chupra
and and Shahabad districts remain quiet, but sonic alarm is
being exhibited at Patna by the townspeople, consequent on
their fears, it is surmised, of being found implicated in the
" plot."