Between 1792 and 1794 she made one voyage to Bengal and back carrying dispatches for the British East India Company (EIC).

In June 1796 she was bringing mail from New York back to Falmouth when a French privateer captured her.

[5] The information in LR suggests that on her return from the Mediterranean St Barbe sold Tartar to new owners who may have intended to use her as a slave ship.

However, although Lloyd's List's ship arrival and departure (SAD) data showed Captain Cummings at Gravesend awaiting to sail to Africa, there is no evidence that he ever did so.

On 29 August 1792 the EIC's Court of Directors took up Tartar to sail as a packet to Bengal, and to remain there.

Still, Captain Timothy Goldsmith was issued a letter of marque on 29 August 1793,[2] i.e., before he had even arrived at St Helena.

On 3 November, Tartar Packet, Causer, master, (or Bullmore; sources differ), again sailed for Halifax.

On 19 March 1796 Tartar Packet, Crosier, master, sailed from Falmouth, bound for New York.