 In late 1798, under "lieutenant de vaisseau" Jean-Baptiste-Edmond Richer, she ferried 120 prisoners from Rochefort to French Guyana.She then ferried troops and despatches from Cayenne to Guadeloupe, and headed back for France.She became famous for the Action of 14 December 1798, in which she captured the much stronger 32-gun "Ambuscade" off the Gironde.