The Sun.
London, England, 1840-04-11 00:00:00

CHESTER-APRIL .?,

CURIOUS ADVIINITELS.--• William Xi-on, 36, sailor,
was indicted for returning from transportation. He hail
been capitally convicted of burglary at Horsham Sptit,ig
Assizes, 1821, which sentence was commuted for tram_

portation for life. The prisoner pleaded guilty.
The following curious statement was read:—" My name
is William Heron. lam a native of Clifton, near Brim:4
Was convicted at the Spring Assizes of 1821, at Horsham,
Sussex, for a burglary committed at Brighton on}
four days before the trial took place. Was sentence"
to death. Prior to this 1 bad never been before a
Mingistrate or in a prison. Was sent to the Yct.k
hulk, at Gosport, thence to New South Wales ( Sydney),
Escaped in six weeks and went to India, from inina
to England, and tbence to America. Was in the ArneMt
can merchant service for some time, :afterwards in' his
Majesty's service in the West Indies, then in the English
merchant service, subsequently in the navel serrice sf
Mexico. Remained thus employed eleven years, when in*
1833 returned to England, apprehended in Febrimr:„ 19:33,
to Portsmouth, and was again sent to Sydney, thence to Poit,
Macquarrie ; remained there nearly two year:, and escaper..F
Left the ship in which I escaped in the Brazils, and we. 3,:.
at America ; entered the naval service of the United StatesN
was employed for twelve months in one of the doc4z
yards in the master's office, writing and drafting. In
1839, commanded a trading vessel between New Ot-
leans and Mobile. Returned to England the 11th of
last month (1840), in the Ship Ann, Richard Andes- •
seal. Surrendered myself on Monday, 31st March,
to the authoiities of Sandbieli, Cheshire. Was brought •
to Chester Castle on the let of this mouth. Have
been mostly employed at sea during the intervals
of my eseap, a and apprehensions. Lived by in,
dustrious exertions during these periods. Was dew-
mined, ut all ricks, to endeavour to gain intelligence of my
relatives, if any arc yet living; knew it to be imitossiblki'
without taking this public method. Nineteen years-Zeoinq
in the 20th) have elapsed since I have beard any tidir4s
of them. My intention was to surrender myself in some
country place ; walked on until I became destitute, when
I did so at Sandbach. I shall try for a commutation hf the
sentence of transportation for life against me, as I have suf.
fered the punishment of banishment for nearly twenty yews,
for the crime or error of a boy of sixteen. Failing iq this,
I shall endeavour to get a conditional pardon to return
free, to New South Wales, if required. My sentence has
been very severe, and I consider that the appeal I cat
make against it should be made in a Court of Justice."
Sentence—Six months' imprisonment and kept to bard
labour, and transportation for life.

FUNERAL OF THE HON. MRs. GRANT OF
GRANT, AND THE MASTER OF GRANT, LATE M.P. FOR 11i,
TERNESS-SHIRE.—The remains of F. W. Grant, Esq.. younger
of Grant, having been conveyed from Callen House to Castle.
Grant, the family seat most adjacent to the burying puce cf.
the family at Duthil, to which seat the remains of his
beloved mother had been previously conveyed, from Lest-
don, Thursday, the 26th ult., was appointed fee are
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great extent extit'eentfuonferatlheofreltahteionma mother Kerb
betwixt the family of Grant and the c
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mnoutnitY()J. the
four adjoining comities, it was . resolved. . . to
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that all could .
tmhegrerelavtedreistna,n, eiens,ritoutln. .
whst might appear invidious selections, by
uinnvdietrinig-veas.elnimt ictielLt
number of persons, seeing
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cumstances, be conveniently
But besides the immediate relatives of the fatuity, Mao
issued.
and tenantry. and others connected with the de.
ness the mournful ceremony, so
_
gentlemen
.. .
mains iinmediately adjoining to Castle Grant, felt within thee:
own
breasts a call to follow to the tomb the remains el',
their revered benefactor. And the scene was one wit,i;•N
o ill be indelibly engraved on their memories, and wIll;
form the subject of a tale that will be told, w tl:
feelings of seep interest, by sire to son, for gent-in,
tions to come. Over a wide tract of country, extending to many
miles, and comprehending several parishes, all operations were
suspended; and a mournful gloom, like a heavy aloud, hunt;
over the district. Groups of people, of all ages, decent*
attired, were seen in different directions, wending their way
towards the line of procession ;
while the tolling at interests'
of, the bells of the churches arid public seminaries, renticred
the event more striking and impressive. At two o'clock tin:
procession emerged from the policies of Castle Gmois
and proceeded to l)uthil. After the tenantry assembled en the
spot wore permitted to take a last look of the remains, the
gates of the splendid mausoleum (finished only last year)• liPff
closed on the mother and sea—Edinburgh Advertiser. i
Early on Friday morning a fire was &sew:Area;
lat an eating-house on School-hill, Lewes, but was holltilF
extinguished befere any great damage had becadone.