On 11 July 1801, Chiffonne, under the command of Captain Pierre Guiyesse arrived at Mahé, Seychelles from the port of St Nazaire with 33 deportees under sentence of exile from France.

Guiyesse had her guns thrown overboard, took her stores (cables, spare rigging and sails), and then released her officers and crew under parole.

At the time of the British attack Chiffonne was at anchor and aided her defense by constructing a battery using some of her forecastle guns and heating the shot.

[1] In July 1802 she carried despatches to Calcutta with the reports of the murder of the Persian ambassador Haji Khalil Khan in Bombay.

Captain Charles Adam (late of Sibylle) took command of Chiffonne on 23 May 1803 and recommissioned her for service in the North Sea and the coast of Spain, where she served from 1803 to 1807.

[9] On 10 June 1805, Chiffonne, with Falcon, Clinker, and Frances chased a French convoy for nine hours until it took shelter under the guns of Fécamp.

The convoy consisted of two corvettes (Foudre under Capitaine de vaisseau Jacques-Felix-Emmanuel Hemelin, and Audacieuse, under Lieutenant Dominique Roquebert), four large gunvessels and eight others, and 14 transports.

The British suffered some casualties from gunfire from shore batteries, with Chiffonne, which had borne the brunt of the firing, losing two men killed and three wounded.

[1] On 14 June Chiffonne, which had returned to Portsmouth, sailed for Cadiz, carrying General Sir John Moore and Admiral Purvis, who had raised his flag on her.

[11] At some point in early 1807, boats from Chiffonne and Sabrina cut out a brig and a schooner under the guns of a 4-gun battery on the south coast of Spain.

About a year and a half later, on 13 September 1809, Chiffonne was in the port of Bombay when the ship Shah Ardaseer caught fire.

[1] The Principal Officers and Commissioners of His Majesty's Navy offered "Chiffonne, of 36 guns and 945 tons", lying at Portsmouth, for sale on 11 August 1814.