In late 1799, the Commissioners of the Navy engaged Bellona and Wellesley to "convey stores, &c. to the different Settlements in India, on account of Government.

"[5] Wellesley was under the command of Captain Peter Gordon on 9 August 1800, when she encountered the French 36-gun frigate Franchise off the coast of Brazil.

Wellesley was carrying provisions and stores for the fleet at the Cape and India; her crew consisted mostly of lascars and Chinese.

P. Gordon of the Wellesley for defending that ship against a French Frigate of 36 Guns on the coast of Brazil, the 9th of August 1800".

[8] That autumn, The Times reported, "The following ships arrived at the Cape, and departed from thence in September and October (1800): The Bellona, Union, Sarah, Wellesley, Cecilia, Kent, and Thetis.

[4] In the next few years, Wellesley made two trips from Bengal to Britain for the British East India Company (EIC).

She reached St Helena on 8 November, Ventry Harbour, Ireland, on 13 January 1804, and Carrick Road on 7 February.

Weymouth provided the naval escort for a convoy of five East Indiamen and two whalers that left Portsmouth on 1 February 1805.

The Indiamen were Earl of Abergavenny, Royal George, Henry Addington, Wexford, and Bombay Castle.

On 5 February the incompetence of her pilot caused the loss of Earl of Abergavenny and 263 of the people on board.

Weymouth returned to Britain in 1806, having left Madras on 8 September 1805 escorting Airly Castle, Baring, Duke of Montrose Lord Hawkesbury, and Devaynes.

[14] In March 1818, she delivered them at Deptford, together with a nine-ton granite head that at the time was believed to be that of Memnon, King of Abydos, Egypt.