[2] Jacobine was under the command of lieutenant de vaisseau Dalbarde from 3 April 1794 until 13 September 1794.

The Royal Navy in July 1795 commissioned Matilda under Commander George Vaughan.

(Because she was a sixth rate she would normally be a post captain's command, and Vaughan indeed received the requisite promotion in November.)

She joined up with him at Saint-Pierre, Martinique, on 29 June with the report that the day before she had seen a French squadron of nine ships, three of them large frigates.

[6] She had also qualified to share in the proceeds of the capture of Saint Lucia in 25 May by the naval forces under Admiral Hugh Cloberry Christian and troops under Lieutenant-General Sir Ralph Abercromby.

[3] On 13 February 1797 Matilda captured a French navy schooner of two guns and 38 men.

[8] At some point between 25 July and 5 October, Matilda detained the sloop Mary, of 104 tons (bm) and ten men, of Saint Thomas.

She was carrying cash and dry goods, had a crew of Frenchmen, and had false invoices.

There Mitford arrested Thomas Pitt, Lieutenant Lord Camelford, of Favourite.

[a] On 19 January Matilda captured the French privateer ship Ceres off Antigua.

She had a crew of 45 men, and was sailing from Saint Bartholomew's to Guadeloupe to complete her fitting-out.

[19][f] The arrival of an Admiralty Order dated 27 June 1798 confirmed the commissioning of Matilda, and the name change from Jacobine.