Kammala wannan jumla: Alms ya yi gwagwarmaya da iskar da ba ta dace ba da kuma yawan cututtuka, a ƙarshe ya tilasta shi ya bar jiragen ruwa a bakin tekun Arabiya don kawo jiragen yaƙinsa don isa Indiya a kan lokaci don lokacin yakin neman zabe. Jirgin ruwan Birtaniya ya hadu da Sir Edward Hughes a Madras a ranar 11 ga Fabrairun 1782, kuma "Monmouth" ya ci gaba da shiga cikin rikice-rikice da yawa tsakanin Hughes da Bailli de Suffren; a Sadras a ranar 17 ga Fabrairu, Providien a ranar 12 ga Afrilu, Negapatam a ranar 6 ga Yuli, da kuma
Trincomalee a ranar 3 ga Satumba 1782.