Commander of Little Belt
By November 1810 Bingham was given the command of the 20-gun sixth-rate sloop Little Belt, and sailed to Halifax, and later to the Caribbean. On 19 April 1811 he was ordered by Rear-Admiral Herbert Sawyer to deliver instructions to Captain Samuel Pechell of HMS Guerriere, then somewhere off the North American coast. If unable to locate Pechell, Bingham was ordered to cruise off the coast, protecting British trade until his supplies were exhausted, at which point he was to put into Halifax and await further orders. He was warned
You are to be particularly careful, not to give any just cause of offence to the government or the subjects of the United States of America...
Bingham duly sailed from Bermuda, but being unable to locate the Guerriere, commenced cruising off the coast.
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