In the spring of 1807, Attentive's boats cut out two doggers, from the small port of La Trinité, Martinique.

There was an English negro on board one who offered to pilot the British in to take an unprotected sloop with a cargo of sugar that was lying a few miles to the windward.

After one of the boats went in chase of a small craft, Lieutenant Cox, the overall commander of the cutting out party, suddenly noticed that a guarda costa was anchored between him and the sloop.

[3] On 17 October 1807 Attentive was between Trinidad and Tobago when she encountered the Spanish privateer lugger Nuestra Senora del Carmen.

[4][a] In October 1808, Attentive captured another small privateer, a row boat armed with one long gun and having a crew of 35 men.

[6] On 31 May 1809 Captain John Richards of Forester sent boats from his small squadron under the command of Lieutenant Robert Carr of Attentive to capture a French letter of marque and a schooner from under the protection of four long-guns and 300 soldiers at the Port du Molas.

[7] A British squadron under Captain George Miller in Thetis arrived at Deshaies on 12 December 1809 to reconnoiter the harbour.