The French Navy purchased the mercantile brig Jaseur at Île de France in July 1806.

On 10 July 1807, the British fifth rate HMS Bombay, under Captain William Jones Lye, captured Jaseur in the Bay of Bengal some eight leagues (21 nmi; 24 mi; 39 km) off Little Andaman, after a chase of nine hours.

[3] On 20 November 1807 Jaseur sailed in a squadron under the command of Rear-Admiral Sir Edward Pellew from Malacca to the Dutch post at Griessie in the Netherlands East Indies.

The governor and council of Surabaya, a settlement about 15 miles (24 km) higher up the river, and to which Gressie was subordinate, signed a treaty.

[4] In company with a local merchant brig heading to Macao, Jaseur left Calcutta in Bengal on 8 August 1808 bound for Prince of Wales Island with dispatches for Rear-Admiral William O'Bryen Drury.