HMS Bonetta was the French privateer Huit Amis, launched at Bordeaux in 1798 that the British Royal Navy captured in May.

Huit Amis was purpose-built for privateering, quite new, and on her first cruise when HMS Endymion captured her on 10 May 1798 on the Irish Station.

[4] She sailed via Portugal and in early January 1800 a report arrived that the fleet had tried to get over the bar at Oporto but that only two vessels of the convoy had been able to do so due to the severity of the surf.

[1] Lowestoffe sailed from Kingston, Jamaica on 22 July 1801, and met a convoy five days later at Port Antonio.

[8][9] In the late afternoon of 11 August Acasta left Bonetta and three of her own boats to help the wrecked vessels and then took command of the convoy.

[10] During the night of 25 October 1801 Bonetta ran aground on a reef in the Jardines south of Cuba.

It ordered him to forfeit all pay due to him, to be dismissed the service, never to serve in the Navy again, and to spend two years in the Marshalsea prison.