1845.] Report of a Trial for Rebellion, at Moulmein. 749 



nine: of the rains when the country becomes impassable 184i - 



July 19. 

 for troops, and he would have been master of the upper 



country during the rains — which would have produced £ ase ot N< ** 

 a great effect on the people both here and in the Bur- others. 

 mese territory, where also the people were much excited. 



" Captain McLeod, my principal assistant, was des- 

 patched at once with a party of the local corps to Da- 

 loung, near the Siamese frontier, where Nga Pyan was ; 

 and the civil charge (revenue excepted) of that part of 

 the country was also temporarily given him; at the 

 same time the local native officers of districts and vil- 

 lages were called on to arm a portion of the inhabitants, 

 there being reason to suspect most of them of being 

 implicated. The suspicions were made known, with a 

 promise of no further enquiry in case of zeal. 



" Forced marches brought Captain McLeod up just 

 in time to meet Nga Pyan as he was leaving the Pagoda, 

 where he had performed the ascetic devotions required, 

 according to popular belief, in founders of dynasties. He 

 was proceeding to Gyne, where the people were at that 

 moment assembling from all parts with arms. The trial 

 details the proceedings — a party under the native ma- 

 gistrate of the district (Moung Gyaing, the Goung Gy- 

 ouk) ordered Nga Pyan and his people, who were in 

 canoes, to stop and give themselves up, but they refus- 

 ed, and a skirmish followed, in which a few of Nga 

 Pyan's people were killed or wounded, and one man of 

 the Government party was slain. Nga Pyan fled, but 

 by great energy and zeal, and conciliation on the part 

 of Captain McLeod, the Karens, who inhabit those dis- 

 tricts and had all joined Nga Pyan, were led to confide 

 in a promise of perfect amnesty if they prevented the 

 flight of the insurgent party — very large rewards were 

 at the same time offered, as far as rupees 1000, for 

 Nga Pyan himself, and eventually nearly all the leaders 

 were secured. At the same time the native servants of 

 Government were assured of forgiveness. 



