She came to England circa 1794 and first sailed as a West Indiaman but then new owners in 1795 employed her as a slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people.

[1] In August 1794 Lloyd's List reported that Solicitor General was sailing from Antigua to Liverpool when she had put into St Kitts in a leaky condition.

[5] While they were awaiting ransom, their captors held the crew in Passereet, a town reportedly five days travel from Santa Cruz (possibly Agadir, once the Portuguese port and fort of Santa Cruz do Cabo de Gué).

[7] Seventeen ninety-five was the worst year in the period 1793–1807 for losses among British slave ships.

Fifty vessels were lost that year, 40 of them on the coast of Africa, and three Africa-bound from British ports.