She sailed from Lorient on 15 August 1807 under the command of Lieutenant de vaisseau Maujouan, and in the company of Diligente and Sylphe. The three ships were sailing across the Bay of Biscay en route to Martinique when they encountered Comet, under Captain Cuthbert Featherstone Daly, on 17 August 1808. Comet soon captured Sylphe but the other two escaped. The next day Captain Clotworthy Upton in Sybille captured Espiègle. Diligente, though, escaped.