Van Diemen's Land Convict Pardon: for William Osborne, November 1849, signed by Lieutenant-Governor (later Governor General) William Denison., William Osborne, convicted at Kent Quarter Sessions in 1840, transported the same year aboard the 'Asia 1' with a sentence of 15 years, is granted a pardon 'upon the condition that he shall not return to or be found within the United Kingdom or Great Britain and Ireland'.