She then served in private trade between Britain and India until 1809 or so when she transferred her registry back to Bombay.

Thereafter she served as a country ship, though in both 1810 and again in 1817 she performed a voyage to Britain for the British East India Company.

Cornwallis was admitted to British Registry on 12 May 1797 as a private vessel employed in the trade between Britain and India.

[8] She served as a transport or troopship to support Major-General Sir David Baird's expedition in 1800 to the Red Sea.

[15] Baird was in command of the Indian army that was going to Egypt to help General Ralph Abercromby expel the French there.

[16] Lloyd's Register Captain Robert Robertson died on 26 March 1802 as Cornwallis was sailing from India to England.

[10] On 25 August 1815 Cornwallis, Graham, master, sailed for London from the Cape of Good Hope.

British ships were then free to sail to India or the Indian Ocean under a licence from the EIC.

[18] On 23 January 1816 her agents applied for a licence authorizing Cornwallis to trade between the United Kingdom and the East Indies.

[11] In June 1841 Cornwallis was in Bombay harbour with a cargo of cotton for China when she caught fire.