Homeward bound, she crossed the Second Bar on 3 March, reached St Helena on 6 August, and arrived at The Downs on 17 October.

[2] Neptune was part of a convoy that also included Dorsetshire, Exeter, Bombay Castle, and Coutts, the Botany Bay ships Royal Admiral and Anne, and the whaler Seringapatam.

On the morning of 4 August they encountered French squadron consisting of the frigates Concorde, Médée, and Franchise.

Homeward bound, she was at 9 May Lintin Island on 9 May, reached St Helena on 22 September, and arrived at The Downs on 10 December.

Homeward bound, she crossed the Second Bar on 9 January 1803, reached St Helena on 14 May, and arrived at The Downs on 18 July.

To avoid French ships reported to be in the Indian Ocean, the fleet sailed towards Western Australia, rather than to the Straits of Malacca.

Homeward bound, she was at Malacca on 21 March, reached St Helena on 30 June, and arrived at The Downs on 10 September.

The Chinese government demanded that the British deliver up the seaman who had struck the blow that proved fatal.

The Chinese government signaled that it would not pursue the matter further and the British agreed that the hostage would leave with the next fleet of Indiamen once the sentence of expulsion had been passed.

Homeward bound, she crossed the Second Bar on 22 December, reached St Helena on 21 May 1810, and arrived at The Downs on 28 July.

Homeward bound, she crossed the Second Bar on 18 December, reached St Helena on 27 March 1813, and arrived at The Downs on 5 June.

[2] Captain Edward Smith Ellis sailed from Portsmouth on 31 December 1813, bound for Bombay and China.

Homeward bound, she was at Rajah Basah Roads on 10 February 1815,[b] She reached St Helena on 19 April and arrived at The Downs on 23 June.