[6][d] Then on 1 December Lieutenant Boger chased a French privateer on shore three leagues eastward of Cape Malabar.

[8] Corso and Espoir shared the prize money for the vessel, which the London Gazette, apparently mistakenly, described as the barque Adolphe.

She had been sent there to encourage the joint Russian-Ottoman squadron under Admiral Ushakov conducting the Siege of Corfu (1798–1799) to send some vessels to join the British at Messina.

On 18 February 1800 Corso was in company with a number of ships under the command of Lord Nelson when lookouts on HMS Alexander sighted the French and gave chase.

The British eventually caught up with Contre-amiral Jean-Baptiste Perrée's flagship Généreux and forced her to surrender.

The captured vessel was Ville de Marseilles, a transport armed en flûte, was carrying salt meat, brandy, wine, clothing, stores, etc.

The Treachery of your Municipality, in causing to be arrested an Officer with Dispatches, has been long known to the British Admiral in these Seas.

That the Innocent suffer with the Guilty, though much to be regretted, is the natural Feature of War; and the more terrible Infliction on this occasion, the more striking the Example should prove to surrounding Municipalities.

[19] On 4 January 1801 some merchants of Trieste presented Ricketts with a diamond ring in appreciation of his efforts against French privateers in the Adriatic.

[20][15] On 17 January they captured two vessels:[19] On 13 February they detained the Danish ship Adonis, which was sailing from Copenhagen to Trieste with a cargo of stockfish.

[19] On 16 February they detained the Danish brig Madellina Christiana, which was sailing from Venice to Zante with a cargo of planks.

[19] On 27 February they recaptured the Imperial trebaccolo Madona del Annunciade, which was sailing from Trieste to Fiume with a cargo of hemp.

[19] On 17 April Corso captured the Cisalpine trebaccolo St. Luizi, which was sailing from Eipidore bound for Siniglis with a cargo of wheat.

[19] On 19 April Corso recaptured the imperial brig Imperetore, which was sailing from Trieste to Zante with a cargo of merchandise.

There she captured Corivesse (or Ecrivisse), a small vessel of one brass gun and 16 men under the command of M. Bernard du Bourdier, a lieutenant of Régénérée.

[22][19] On 23 June 1801 from Mercury and Corso were in the Tremiti Islands where they destroyed the pirate tartane Tigre, of eight 6 and 12-pounder guns and a crew of 60 French and Italians.

Corso and Pigmy then answered an appeal from Venice and took all necessary measures to protect the city against a reported French force.

The "Principal Officers and Commissioners of His Majesty's Navy" offered "El Corso, of 234 tons", "lying at Woolwich" for sale on 1 September 1814.