Fate
After the war, her owners sold her in Kingston, Jamaica; her subsequent fate is not known. A vessel with the identical name, however, with the master given as Steven Singleton, is mentioned carrying emigrants to the United States from England in 1817 in the Memorials of the Clarke Family.
The War of 1812 was the last time the British allowed privateering. The practice was coming to be seen as politically inexpedient and of diminishing value in maintaining Britain's naval supremacy.
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