The British government chartered nine vessels as cartels, i.e., under a flag of truce, to carry back to France the French troops that they had captured in these campaigns.

[11] In addition, at end-March 1811 General Wellesley sailed from Mauritius to repatriate to France 120 people who had refused to take the oath of allegiance to the King after the British capture of the island.

[14] General Wellesley finally enters Lloyd's Register in 1812 with Brown, master, H. Reid, owner, and trade London—India.

Heathorn sailed from the Hughli River bound for England on a voyage for which General Wellesley was under charter to the EIC.

[1] The Register of Shipping for 1814 has General Wellesley's master changing from Brown to Heathorn, her owner from Reid to J.

On 12 January 1815 General Wellesley grounded on the South Breakers, apparently while being chased by a larger ship.

The prize master estimated that had it been possible to get a decked vessel alongside her before she sank it would have been possible to save her crew and also property worth some $20,000.