CONSPIRACY AT DINAPORE.

New Zealander, Volume 1, Issue 47, 25 April 1846, Page 4

CONSPIRACY AT DINAPORE.

[From the Sydney Morning Herald.]

Our daily cotemporaries have recently announced the detection of a Mahommedan conspiracy at Dinapore, to debauch the minds of our Sepoys, and induce them to assist in massacreing all the Europeans in Patna, and generally throughout Behar. It has evidently been the ■wish of the public authorities to avoid drawing attention to this plot, in the laudable hope ol being able to obtain a clue to its origin, and to trace its ramifications. But the arrest and confinement of the two principal conspirators, must have long since placed all those who were implicated in it, on their guard, and there can therefore be no inconvenience in laying before our readers the information, however imperfect, we have been enabled to glean of it. The immediate agent of this scheme was the Moolsulman Moonshe of the Ist Rcgt. of Native Infantry, who receives a salary of thirty rupees a month. Having succeeded in enlisting the services of the Mahomedan Sepoys of that corps, he proceeded to tamper with the fidelity of the, Hindoos, in which it is supposed he had partially succeeded. The Light Company, under Lieut. Elms, was about to proceed on duty to Gya, and they pretended a willingness to become accomplices in the plot; and some of their number waited on the Moonshee, to demand the reward of their future services. They had no sooner received it, however, than they proceeded to Major Rowecroft, and disclosed the plans of the conspirators. The regimental Moonshee was of course immediately placed in arrest, and through the exertions of Mr. Sandys, of the Civil Service, the Moonshee Raahut Ali,of Patna, the agent in that part of the country, of this abominable combination, was soon after secured. It is generally understood that no fewer than eighteen letters from persons scattered over different parts of India, were discovered in this man’s possession ; and that he bad not less than nine lakhs of rupees placed at his disposal for the accomplishment of this object. We have not however been able to learn to which of the Durbars in India the man was indebted for this large sum. But as soon as complicity in so diabolical a plot has been brought borne to any of the Native Courts, it is to be hoped that Government will not flinch from making a severe and salutary example of it. It is of course well known, that these Courts are the scene of constant intrigue against our authority, and that there are perhaps, few of whose infidelity our Government does not possess substantial proofs ; for there is no year, in which some plot is not hatched for our destruction, which requires only some appearance of the instability of our power, to come to maturity. The most effectual mode of extinguishing these foul conspiracies, is to visit with the most signal punishment whatever Court may be delected in encouraging them. It is much to be feared that so long as any independent Government, with an army at its command, and supposed to be capable of coping with us, continues to exist within the Indus, we must be prepared for such discoveries as that winch has now been made at Dinapore. The subversion of the Lahore Government which is generally considered throughout India, as our last rival for its empire, will go far to extinguish these expectations and conspiracies, and we most cordially hope that our victory at Ferozeshah will be followed up by the most energetic and decisive measures, and be instrumental in establishing British authority in the Pnnjub upon as firm a basis as that on which it stands in Bengal.— Friend of India , Jan . lath.