She reached Port Louis, Isle de France on 16 May, and St Helena on 14 July.

[3] Hodgson was again Earl Cornwallis's captain and he left the Downs on 28 January 1788, bound for Madras and China.

She crossed the Second Bar on 26 November, reached St Helena on 14 February 1792, and arrived at the Downs on 30 March.

[3] By this time the French Revolutionary Wars had broken out, so Hodgson received a letter of marque on 29 June 1793.

[6]- The first advertisement for Hodgson's India Pale Ale appeared in the Calcutta Gazette in September 1793, shortly before the arrival of Earl Cornwallis.

[7] Homeward-bound, Earl Cornwallis passed Saugor on 28 January 1794 and reached St Helena on 20 July.

She had sailed with a convoy of Indiamen that were bringing General Alured Clarke and his troops for the invasion of the Cape Colony.

In 1800 her owners sold Earl Cornwallis to Wilson & Co., who hired her out to carry convicts to Australia.

Under the command of James Tennent, Earl Cornwallis sailed from Portsmouth on 18 November 1800, and arrived at Port Jackson on 12 June 1801.

[10] In June 1802, i.e., after the Treaty of Amiens she sailed to Île de France having on board a number of French prisoners, who had been detained in Bengal.

The prisoners were under the charge of Mr. Campbell, who the Bengal Government had also charged with negotiating with the Governor of Île de France for the release of three vessels, Tay, Highland Chief, and Porcher, that the French privateer Bellone had captured just prior to the signing of the "Preliminaries of Peace".

Lloyd's Register carries Earl Cornwallis from 1800 to 1808 with the unchanged information of J. Tennent, master, Wilson & Co., owner, and trade: London to Botany Bay.