Matilda was one of the transport vessels for the British invasion of Java (1811),[3] conducted under the auspices of Lord Minto.

[7] In March 1812 a British squadron, consisting of Bucephalus, Cornelia, and Procris, as well as the EIC's warships Mercury and Teignnmouth, and its gunboats Wellington and Young Barracouta, as well as the transports Sandany, Minerva, Matilda, and Mary Ann, sailed from Batavia on a punitive expedition to Palembang, on Sumatra, after the Sultan there massacred Dutch and Malays at the Dutch factory there earlier in the month.

[8] EIC voyage (1819–1820): Captain William Hamilton sailed from Portsmouth 22 April 1819, bound for China.

Homeward bound, she crossed the Second Bar on 23 November, reached Saint Helena on 6 February 1820, and arrived at the Downs on 7 April.

The Bengal Pilot Service vessel Guide, Mr. Thomas Yong, master, rescued the passengers and crew.