After the outbreak of the French Revolutionary Wars in 1793 her owner frequently hired her out as an armed ship to the British East India Company (EIC).

[6] Watson proposed to Hastings that the EIC start trading opium to China, and offered Nonsuch for the purpose.

Instead, Richardson sailed via the Malacca Straits and then spent a month around Java, where he sold numerous chests of opium on private account.

On 19 August 1788 Lloyd's List reported that on 12 March Nonsuch, Canning, master, had cleared her pilot and was bound from Bengal to China, "all well".

Some of the survivors then sailed Vansittart's cutter to Penang, while others, including Wilson, went on to Canton in Nonsuch, or Batavia in General Elliot.

[16] In late 1793 John Shore, the EIC's Governor-General of India, formed a squadron from the company's own ships to patrol the region.

He diverted two East Indiamen, William Pitt and Britannia, and Nonsuch from their regular route for the service.

Casualties among the French squadron are not known, but the only loss on the British ships was on Nonsuch, which had a man killed in combat with Cybèle.

She was carrying rice on behalf of the British government which was importing grain to address high prices for wheat in Britain following a poor harvest.

Nonsuch left Diamond Harbour on 21 December 1795, reached St Helena on 17 February 1796, and arrived at the Downs on 18 April.

In August 1797, Captain Thomas, of Nonsuch, seized the merchant vessel Arminde, Barizy, master, off Penang (equally Pedir Roads, i.e., the north coast of Sumatra).

Captain Barizy was a Frenchman, and Armida and her cargo was sold as a prize on the grounds that she was carrying enemy goods.

The Court stated that it believed that had he followed his instructions he would have been able to prevent a French privateer from capturing the EIC's pilot schooners Harriet and Harrington in Balasore Roads.

In his place they appointed Captain Grey, a lieutenant in His Majesty's navy who formerly commanded the marines at Prince of Wales Island (Penang).

After removing the stores, the French on 27 February permitted Osterley to proceed as a cartel for an exchange of prisoners.

[22] Captain Grey, of Nonsuch, examined the papers of M. La Forée, the French officer accompanying Osterely.

[21] In April and May 1799 the Court received letters from the Marine Board criticizing Captain Gray's conduct.

A midshipman from Thetis, with two sailors, rowed back and forth between the wreck and the larger boats that were standing off, and kept up his shuttle service until all the men still on board were rescued.

The EIC's frigate Bombay came up the next day and joined the pursuit, but eventually Confiance escaped in the night after having cut away her anchors and thrown overboard all but her stern chase guns.

[6] Then on 30 August 1802, the Court of Directors announced that "the Company's frigate Nonsuch", had been discharged in Bengal and the crew paid off in consequence of the peace.