Captain Robert Carr left Portsmouth on 11 March 1783, sailing for Madras and Bengal.

On 19 June Barwell reached Johanna (Anjouan in the Comoros), on 22 July Madras, and 14 September she arrived at Kedgeree.

For her return to England she reached Saugor (West Bengal) on 31 December, St Helena on 28 April 1784, and Deptford on 2 August.

[2] Captain Robert Carr sailed Barwell for China, leaving the Downs on 12 March 1785.

One night, when Welladvice calculated Barwell's position, he determined that she had to be near the Isles and moored her at midnight.

Barwell was part of a convoy that also included the East Indiamen Prince William, Lord Thurlow, William Pitt, Glatton, Pigot, Earl of Oxford, Osterley, Fort William, London, Houghton, Marquis of Landsdown, Hillsborough, Ceres, and Earl of Abergavenny, amongst numerous other vessels, merchant and military, most of the non-Indiamen travelling to the Mediterranean.

She arrived at St Helena on 18 March, Galway on 20 July, and Long Reach on 31 August.

On her return voyage Barwell arrived at St Helena on 22 March 1796, and Long Reach on 8 August.

Under the command of John Cameron, Barwell sailed from Portsmouth on 7 November 1797,[8] She arrived at the Cape on 21 February 1798.

[11] When Barwell reached Port Jackson Cameron charged Ensign George Bond, of the New South Wales Corps, with mutiny.

[8] She left St Helena on 6 July in the company of the Indiamen Tellicherry, Triton, and Armenian, and under escort by the 18-gun Cornwallis.

There she discharged her passengers, one of whom was carrying dispatches for the British government from Governor Hunter in Australia.

[8] Lloyd's Register for 1799 has Scott & Co. as her owner, E. Redman as her master, and her trade as London and Botany Bay.