On 23 January 1809 Captain William Maude of returned to his station off Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, where he had left Cherub to watch the French frigate that was taking shelter there [REF].
In early June 1809 Cherub and sailed into the anchorage at Basse-Terre to cut out two French frigates lying there under the protection of a fort and some batteries.