[5] War with France broke out again in early 1803 and Taylor was issued a letter of marque in absentia on 22 July, shortly before Vanguard arrived in Grenada on 29 August.

[6] Taylor was no longer master of Vanguard when she was off Barbados before having delivered her captives, having been replaced by John Pince.

However, by the time she arrived back at Liverpool Richard Burrows had replaced Pince.

The illegality rested in that the regulations of the slave trade required the actual master to sign various documents and give various undertakings.

Taylor left Vanguard on the African coast and made his own way back to England.

[7] John Pince died aboard Vanguard after a short illness as she was sailing from Grenada to Tortola.

Barr purchased captives at Bonny Island and stopped at São Tomé before sailing on to the West Indies.

[3] Robert Kitchen and Benjamin Cors had been Vanguard's owner on her fourth voyage transporting enslaved people.

[12] On 17 March 1809 Lloyd's List reported that the French privateer Embuscade had captured Vanguard after an action lasting an hour and a half.

LR for 1809 carried unchanged data for Vanguard from the 1808 volume, except that it had the annotation "captured".