HMS Mandarin was a Dutch gun-brig of 178 tons burthen (bm) and 12 guns that the British had captured at Amboyna in February 1810.

One was the ship Mandarine, of 16 guns and 66 men, Captain Besman, that Cornwallis captured on 3 February after a chase of four hours.

[2] From her description, HMS Mandarin appears to have been Mandurese, with confusion arising out of the similarity of her name with that of the vessel that Cornwallis captured.

[4] Jeffries was carrying dispatches from Amboyna to Madras when his vessel struck an unknown reef in the Straits of Singapore.

Jeffries saved the dispatches and he and his crew lived on the island until Chiffonne, which happened to be passing, rescued them.