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 Rowcroft,
that certain persons had been tampering with the men of his
own and of other regiments at Dinapore, giving them money,
and setting them against " the Sirkar Bahadoor." Major
Rowcroft gave immediately notice to the civil authorities •:it
Perna, which led to the speedy arrest of a regimental moon-
slime, of the name of Peer Buksh. The confession which
he made on being examined led to the apprehension of
Said Rahaat Alle, a discarded deputy collector, and
long a well-known 'Radical of Patna. His papers were
seized simultaneously with his person, and, from a careful
these, it became apparent that the Said
h
e Hussun Allee Khan, a native gentle-
man
ena'sneOliff somenaatnidei(hivai
n of
property in the Gyan and Chapra districts,
were the chief conspirators. There were many other names
subordinately concerned, a paper called a mazurnamee being
found on Raahaat Allee, with some 700 signatures, binding
the subscribers to uphold their religion against all attempts
of the Government to subvert it. It appeared also, in the
course of the investigation, that reports had been indus-
triously circulated among the villages in the interior of
the several districts of Behrt, that on a certain date (the
), the different magistrates
Thannahs, prohibiting eir-
eoos to eat together generally.
ourld
t
information goes, whether
2cwl
tuOontitt
soifitos
,tsaihu,s iecasenrondtrl.acfolioineirrtecshdi
forcing
sw
aei
ael br
ailhiiseeniNi
the " Patna plot " bad 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. KlAvaje Hutson 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 he
and the Said Raaliaat Alice had by them sums of money,
wrapped in sloth, exactly corresponding with the pay of the
Suwars and native officers of the different grades in the
British irregulcr cavalry. The principal native police officer
in the city of Patna, Meer Mahomed 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 he was assisting
is, pending
to hatch. Shah Kubbur-ood-deen, of Sasseram, is suspected,
fbuurtthneorthiinng
feshtasignyteiotnb,eeknepptrovuenddeargasiunns,teliilia;ce
in
his
own
house at Arran. Said:Raahut 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, taken 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 some faint hopes of the reverses in the far west
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.
One company of the Ist N. I. is at Gyah. The Chupra
and and Shahabad districts remain quiet, but some alarm is
being exhibited at Patna by the townspeople, consequent on
their fears, it is surmised, of being found implicated in the
" plot."