HMS Variable was the United States brig Edward, built in 1812, captured and brought into Jamaica that the Royal Navy purchased in 1814.

Rear Admiral William Brown appointed Lieutenant Richard Williams, from the schooner HMS Decouverte to the command of Edward, "a brigantine of 360 tons, 12 guns, and 74 men".

[2] Before Williams left the Jamaica station in 1815, he received a letter of thanks from the mayor and merchants of Kingston for his services to the trade.

[2] Lieutenant Robert Baldey replaced Sykes, perhaps after Baldey returned to Jamaica in May 1815 after having carried Simon Bolivar in Decouverete from what is now Venezuela to Jamaica.

[3] Variable arrived at Portsmouth on 17 July 1816 from Jamaica and Havana.