[4][a] Around 18 March, HMS Scout was in company with the hired armed vessels Sheerness and Lady Charlotte when they captured a large Dutch East Indiaman off St Alban's Head.
[7] On 29 March Lady Charlotte went in chase of the brig Friendship, which had been sailing from London to Dublin when a French privateer had taken her off Portland.
[9] The winds were such that Lady Charlotte was unable to go to Sheerness's assistance, and instead sent her boats after three brigs and a sloop that Préfet de la Manche had captured.
"Prefet de la Mouche" also captured Flora, Cummings, master, as she was sailing from Dartmouth to Guernsey.
[11] Unfortunately, as Sheerness chased Préfet de la Manche, an almost spent cannonball that Sheerness had fired in chase entered Préfet de la Manche and killed Arters, of Vigilant, and wounded another Englishman, both of whom were having dinner with the captain of the privateer at the time.
[12][13][c] The Naval Chronicle credits Lady Charlotte and Lieutenant Morris with the capture of Petite Pirate, which she brought into Plymouth on 26 April.
On 22 October 1803, the Naval Chronicle announced that T. Lockyer, Esq., was the sole owner of two of the "most beautiful letters of marque that will sent from any port in the United Imperial Kingdoms of England and Ireland."
One was Pretty Lass, a ship of 230 tons (bm), armed with sixteen 6-pounder guns and four 42-pounder brass carronades, and under the command of Alexander Ferguson.
The other was the brig Lady Charlotte, of 130 tons (bm), armed with six 18-pounder and six 12-pounder guns, and two 42-pounder carronades, and under the command of F.J. Withers.
[18] A Lady Charlotte, variously described as a brig or a ship, of 117 tons (bm), then received a sequence of letters of marque.