In 1817 she repatriated from Batavia to London Lord William Amherst and the officers and crew of HMS Alceste.

The Register of Shipping for 1816 shows Caesar's master changing from Shand to Taylor, her owner from Fowlgen to C.H.

Captain J. Taylor sailed from England in December 1816, bound for Fort William, India.

She was wrecked, and first Lord Amherst and his party, and then the rest of Alceste's officers and crew reached Batavia.

Several accounts of the voyage mention the feeding of the python, and its dissection after its death on the way to St Helena.

On 28 June Lord Amherst, Captain Maxwell of Alceste, and Mr. Lynn, her surgeon, met with Napoleon Bonaparte.

[16] Caesar continued to trade with the East Indies on her return from repatriating Lord Amherst and the crew of Alceste.