British ships were then free to sail to India or the Indian Ocean under a license from the EIC.

In 1820 Westmoreland's owners advertised that she would leave Leith on 1 November, call at Portsmouth, and sail to the Cape of Good Hope, Van Diemen's Land, and Sydney.

[4] Her second officer was John Dibbs, who would leave her at Sydney to become a prominent mariner in the area.

Westmoreland was at Portsmouth on 29 November and left for Van Diemen's Land on 14 December.

Thomas Kendall, and the Maori chieftains Waitkato and Hongi Hika, to whom King George IV had gifted a suit of armour.

While in England Hongi Hika had also negotiated a large quantity of muskets and ammunition for land from the French adventurer Baron Charles de Thierry who shipped them to Sydney.

Waitkato and Hongi Hika and their armaments landed in New Zealand in July 1821, and Westmoreland continued north east to Tahiti for extra cargo and passengers.

[5] In 1834 Westmoreland, Knill, master, was sailing from Quebec to Harwich when she grounded on Crosslands and had to be assisted in leaky.

Westmoreland was returning to London from the coast of Africa when she put into Saint Helena.