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Please could you help me decipher this pardon awarded to my very Great-Grandfather, Matthew Ward. He was transported in 1840 and pardoned 9 years later ( ummmm, very Great Granny too!).
I can fathom some of it but not all, and it gives his description which is fascinating if only I knew what it says!
I will try to attach an image but it never seems to work for me, so if not, here is the link.  I would be so grateful if someone could help me out, thanks.
http://search.archives.tas.gov.au/ImageViewer/image_viewer.htm?CON33-1-6,346,320,L,80

Thank you Merlin, I have followed all the leads and it is extraordinary the amount I have learnt with your help.

The following might be a new thread?  Sorry if so but it is relevant to Matthew Ward. 
Matthew and Jane had just one daughter,  Mary Ann and she married William Edwards.  In 1853 they sailed to Sydney with their 6 children by assisted passage on the Empire.  It was a long, horrific voyage during which William died and a baby son, Josiah was born, he too died. My Great-grandfather James was the eldest of their children at 16 when they arrived in Sydney.  By 1861 James and his widowed sister, Mary were back in Liverpool but I think the other children remained in Australia, certainly their brother William did.
What I can't find out, and I have carefully checked the BMD in Australia and England, is what happened to Mary Ann and when she died. I presume she met up with her parents in Sydney, but her death is a mystery.  In the circumstances, I wondered if she perhaps married again and that is why I can't find her death?  Any ideas please!

Thank you for putting me on track, I have found Jane's death for 1870 among the Jane Wards, I am pretty sure it is her as her parent's names match up. Formidable couple!  (I think their daughter was made the same). After they were pardoned, at their age and at that time, it must have been a big trek from Tasmania to Sydney. Thanks once again.

I seem to have come to an impasse regarding my 5xGreat Grandfather, Matthew Ward.  I am pretty certain of the following: born in Manchester in 1780 and married Jane Lowndes in 1807.  The Lowndes (Loundes) were a very 'iffy' lot with multiple convictions and in 1840 aged 60 Matthew was convicted of stealing and sentenced to 10 years transportation to Van Diemens Land.  He is on the register of Lady Raffles sailing in November 1840.  I found a reference that he was given a conditional pardon in 1849.
His wife Jane Ward followed him with transportation to VD's Land two years later ( handling stolen goods).  They had one child, Mary Ann Ward. She later married a William Edwards and they went to Sydney, Australia with their children on an assisted passage in 1853. (William died on the way out)
What I would love to know is what happened to Matthew and Jane after their sentence, Matthew would be 69 by then, quite an age and I have no idea what happened to Jane, I cannot find a death.
I wondered if they, or one of them, could have ended up in Sydney which is why their daughter went there?  How can I find out more, how they lived, when and where they died etc. I would be so grateful for your input, thanks.

Yes it is, but a slightly different angle I think, I just wondered where he would have seen it, probably not Liverpool, and Tom mostly worked from life I think.  On the other hand, he did have an uncle and cousins living in Glasgow so could well have visited them and seen the painting, or a reproduction of it there.  That's probably the answer, I guess I'll never know, but for RootsChat I would never have known it was Bass Rock, thank you everyone!