In 1800 a French privateer captured her as Trelawney was sailing to the Mediterranean, but the Royal Navy quickly recaptured her.

[3] On 14 February 1800 HMS Endymion and Amazon recaptured Trelawney,[7] which had been sailing from Liverpool to Leghorn when the French Saint Malo privateer Bougainville captured her.

The next day Bougainville ran into Amazon, lost her masts and foundered, but all but one man of her crew were saved.

[8] Amazon, including Bougainville's crew, Endymion, and Trelawney arrived at Portsmouth on 21 February.

Shortly thereafter she grounded on the Mad-Wharf sandbank, was refloated, but found to be so leaky that she was run onshore near Ravenglass, about 16 miles from Whitehaven, with 15 feet of water in her hold.