[7] Under the command of Captain Percy Earl, General Hewitt sailed from England on 26 August 1813, with 300 male convicts, 104 crew, 70 soldiers, 15 women and five children.

[8] General Hewett arrived at Port Jackson on 7 February 1814, having travelled via Madeira and Rio de Janeiro.

The losses on General Hewitt, Surry, and Three Bees led in 1814 to Surgeon William Redfern preparing a report for Governor Lachlan Macquarie on the sanitary problems of the ships transporting convicts to New South Wales.

There the authorities refused permission for Alceste to ascend the river and ordered the local merchants to deny General Hewitt any cargo.

Alceste fired several broadsides at the fort and junks that attempted to block her way, and proceeded to anchor at the usual place.

[14] On her return voyage General Hewett crossed the Second Bar on 4 December and reached St Helena on 12 March 1817.

[2] Part of the presents for the Emperor of China, which Lord Amherst had not been able to deliver due to a disagreement between the British and the Court over protocol, had been sold in Canton and General Hewett was returning with the rest.

Homeward bound, she reached Colombo on 28 February, Port Louis on 13 April, and St Helena on 30 June.

On the return leg of her voyage she crossed the Second Bar on 5 November, reaching the Cape on 28 February 1821 and St Helena on 31 March.

[2] This return voyage was not without incident as His Majesty's Customs at Cape Town seized her cargo and that of Marchioness of Ely on account of defective manifests.

[2] Captain Thomas William Barrow,[18] who had served aboard General Hewett as first officer on her previous voyage,[18] left the Downs on 23 June 1824 for Bengal.

Departing Plymouth on 11 August 1848, under the command of John Gatenby, she carried passengers and cargo and arrived at Port Jackson on 13 November 1848.

Leaving London on 24 August 1852, under the command of John Gatenby, she carried passengers and cargo and arrived at Port Jackson on 24 December 1852.

[5] General Hewett, under the command of Christopher Loudt, master, left Plymouth for on 5 July 1856 and arrived at Portland, Victoria, on 9 October.

There was labour strife on board with crewmen jumping ship when she arrived, others refusing to work on the voyage, and two assaulting Loudt.