She spent most of her brief career sailing as a West Indiaman.

A French privateer captured her in January or February 1806.

City of London first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1802.

[2] The Journal de Commerce reported that General Perignon had arrived at Saint-Malo on 13 February 1806 with two English prizes, one of 300 tons and one of 400.

They were carrying sugar, coffee, rum, logwood, etc.