She was commissioned (acquired her letter of marque), and then captured later that year.

Capture: On 14 August 1813, HMS Nymphe's yawl (armed with a carronade), and supported by HMS Curlew's boats, chased a schooner for eight hours off Cape Cod, in little wind, before they captured her.

The schooner was the letter-of-marque Paragon, of 157 tons burthen, 20 men, and pierced for 16 guns but carrying four, two 12-pounders and two 9-pounders.

Her cargo consisted of 178 bales of cotton, and 146 barrels and 34 half-barrels of rice.

Her captors sent Paragon to Halifax, Nova Scotia, and the Vice admiralty court there condemned her in prize.