CONSPIRACY AT DINAPORE.

Wellington Independent, Volume II, Issue 79, 15 July 1846, Page 3

CONSPIRACY AT DINAPORE.

[From the Sydney Morning Herald,] Our daily cotemporaries have recently announced the detection of a Mahoramedan 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 of being able to obtain a clue to its origin, and to trace its ramifications. But the arreßt 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 wa« the Mcoisulman Moonshee of the Ist Regt. of Native Infantry, who receives a salary of thirty rupees a month. Having succeeded in enlisting the services of-the Mnbomedan Sepoys of that corf**; he proceeded to tamper with the fidelity of the Hindoos, a which it is supposed he had partially succeeded. The Light Company, under Lieut Elms, was about to proceed on duty 10 Gya, and they pretended a willingness to become accomplices in (the plot; and some of their number waited on the Moonsbee, to demaßd the reward of their future services. They bad no sooner received it. however, than they proceeded to Major Rowecnft, and disclosed rhe plans of the conspirators. The regimental Moonahee was of course immediately placed in arrest, and through the exertions of Mr. Sandys, of tha Civil Service, the Moonsbee 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 Utters from persons scattered over different parts of India, were discovered in this man's possesion; and that he had 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 compiicuy in so diabolical a plot has been brought home to 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 infiielity 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 detected in encouraging them. It is much to be feared that ao long as any independent" Government, • with- ai| array at its command, and supposed to be capable of coping with us, continu'S to exist within the Indus, we ranstbe prepared for such discoveries as that which has now made at D.napore. The subversion of the Lahire 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 enegetic and decisive measures, and be intrumental in establishing British authority in tbe Punjaub npon as firm a basis as that on which it stands in Bengal.—Friend of India, Jan. 15th