[2] Diligence cleared the Bahama Straits on 3 March and the next day she was ten leagues SW of the Pan of Motonzas when she encountered and captured Nativetas (or Natividad) after an action that lasted three-quarters of an hour.

[a] In late 1797 or early 1798, the frigate Magicienne, troopship Regulus, and Diligence captured the French privateer Brutus, of nine guns.

A Spanish schooner that was coppered and designed like a Virginia pilot boat was carrying 45,000 pounds of coffee from Saint Martha to Curacoa.

One was the Danish schooner Margarette, of 60 tons (bm) and ten men, which was carrying coffee from Jacquemel to St Thomas.

Another was the Spanish schooner Del Carmen, of 35 tons (bm) and 11 men, was carrying mahogany from St Domingo to Curacoa.

Diligence captured the Danish schooner Mahomet, of 140 tons (bm) and 14 men, which was carrying coffee from Aux Cayes to Curacoa.

Then Diligence's boats cut out the French brig Bon Adventure, of 140 tons (bm) and her cargo of coffee from Lans de Naud Bay.

The American schooner Harriott, of 90 tons and 11 men, was carrying mahogany, coffee, and sugar from St Domingo to Boston.

The Spanish brig Esperanso, of 100 tons, was laden with mahogany when Diligence's boats cut her out of the Macoris River, east of St Domingo.

A Spanish felucca of 60 tons (bm) with a cargo of mahogany was cut out of the Romain River, near St Catherines.

When Diligence intercepted a French schooner sailing from Cap François to Port Dauphin with dry goods, the British took the cargo but let the vessel alone as she was of no value.

Diligence also captured the French schooner Rosario, which was carrying coffee from Jeremie to Curacoa, and the Danish sloop Aurora sailing from St Croix to Aux Cayes.

[1] On 8 October 1800 Diligence was cruising the north coast of Cuba in search of a Spanish polacre privateer reported to be in the area.