Captain Kenneth Mackenzie (or M'Kenzie) of Hippomenes took advantage of her Dutch design had disguised her as a Guinea trader.

In the fight on the privateer, the British lost five dead and eight wounded; only nine of the original 18 managed to escape back to Hippomenes (two officers and two men remained on board Buonaparte as prisoners).

[4] On his return to England, Bousfield discovered that Marnley, of Thetis, had claimed all the credit for the repulse of Buonaparte.

Captain George Cadogan of Cyane described Bonaparte as "a very fine Brig", but in a shattered state, having lost her foremast, bowsprit, and top-masts in an engagement with three English letters of marque three days earlier.

[8] Next, Pert shared with Jason, Hart, and Maria in the capture on 4 October, of the schooner Rebecca, Cook, master.

[9][b] On 16 February 1807 a French privateer of three guns and 70 men captured Britannia, Gibbs, master, which was sailing from London to Jamaica.

[c] Then Pert and the privateer schooner Ambuscade, Captain Francis Criqui Frist, shared in the capture of the ship Commandant Von Scholten, Jelger Willems, master, on 25 June.

[18] Pert shared with Galatea in His Majesty's grant for the capture of the Danish brig Catharini, Hogens, master, on 13 October.

[19] Latona, Circe, Galatea, Cerberus, Cygnet, Pert, and Hart, shared in His Majesty's grant for the Danish schooner Danske Patriot, Outerbridge, master, captured on 20 October.

[f] The vessels shared the grant for the capture as members of a squadron as on 16 October Pert was lost due to a storm.

The weather worsened to a gale that on the morning of 16 October drove Pert on to the rocky shore of Margarita Island after her anchor cable parted.

[g] The gale that wrecked Pert may have been part of the hurricane among the Leeward Islands that on 16 October sank Maria with the loss of her entire crew.