On 15 March 1807 her boats, under the command of Lieutenant George Edward Watts, entered "Puerto de Haz" [sic], Grand Canaria, which was defended by the crossfire of three shore batteries.

[4] That month Comus also captured two brigs, St Philip, with salt fish, and Nostra Senora de los Remedies, with a mixed cargo of merchandise.

The boarding party, under the command of Lieutenant Watts, cleared the felucca's deck of her crew and the boats started to pull her out (the Spaniards had taken the precaution of removing her rudder and sails and taking them on shore), when a tug-of-war developed as men on the quay pulled on a hawser.

Eventually the boarding party cut the hawser and the boats succeeded in pulling the felucca out, an operation they conducted under fire.

The felucca was the packet ship San Pedro de Apostol,[5] which had been carrying bale goods from Cadiz to Buenos Ayres.

During this service she took part in a one-sided single-ship action with a Danish frigate, and accumulated substantial prize money during this period of her career.

On 12 August the 32-gun Danish frigate HDMS Fridericksværn (listed as Fredrickscoarn in British reports), sailed for Norway from Elsinor and Admiral Lord Gambier sent the 74-gun third rate Defence and Comus after her, even though war had not yet been declared.

[14] Three days later Comus shared with Spencer and Pelican in the capture of the Danish merchant vessel Fredeus Forsward.

[15] Later that month, on 9 September, Comus and Pelican captured the Danish merchant vessel Elizabeth vonder Pahlen, but had to share with Defence, which was in sight.

[16] Three days after that, on 2 October, Comus and Pelican captured the Danish merchant vessel Anna Catherina.

[20] The vessels Comus captured were the Ovenum, Martha Beata, Aufgehende Sonne, Finegheden, Johannes, Soe Blomstedt, Speculation, Haabet, Fortuna, Bragernes and Magdalena.

[24][f] On 20 February 1811 Comus was part of a flotilla of British warships and Spanish transports under the command of Rear-Admiral Sir Richard Godwin Keats.

[25] On 10 May 1812, Smith, on behalf of the British government, signed a treaty of commerce with His Highness Sidi Jusef Caramanli, Bashaw, Bey, Governor and Captain General of the City and Kingdom of Tripoli in the West.

[27] In late March Comus was at Hellevoetsluis to transport French coins that Nathan Rothschild had collected.

[28] Comus was under Captain John Tailour from November 1814, during which time she served in the West Africa Squadron.

Then on 15 July at Cape Palmas Comus captured both the Portuguese brigantine Abismo and the Spanish schooner Palafox, neither of which was carrying slaves.

[2] The subsequent court martial blamed the wrecking on a strong current that had driven her closer to shore than Bremer had realized.

However, the court also warned Bremer and the master, Bateman Ainsworth, to be more careful in the future, finding that they had been overconfident in their navigation and had failed to take frequent depth soundings.

[35] The court added that Bremer, his officers and his crew were due the greatest praise "for their arduous exertions in their endeavours to save her, and also for their good and steady conduct throughout the business, both in the boats and on shore".