Incomplete letter from Rear-Adm. Sir Samuel Hood to General Jacob de Budé [?] commenting on Adm. Sir George Rodney's public letters and reporting discourse with Rodney in which Hood suggested he [Rodney] might leave himself open to accusations of having acted differently from what his letters might suggest.
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Sir George Rodney talks of a ship being sunk, but I can give no credit to it. I have seen his public Letters, wherein he says he [[underline]] did [[/underline]] what he [[underline]] ought [[/underline]] to have [[underline]] done, [[/underline]] but did [[underline]] not do [[/underline]]--he asked if I was satisfied, I said most perfectly, with respect to myself, but that he had subjected himself to be contradicted in many parts; his answer was, that I should consider his letters were for the public; for that very reason I replied, I should have confined myself to [[underline]] facts [[/underline]] for every ship of course upon these occasions has a person or two to take minutes of all signals and if you say, for instance, that you made the signal for a General Chance, and did not do it, but lay too--are you not at the mercy of any one man in tho fleet, to charge you with a misrepresentation of your own conduct [[symbol]] He then again said did I wish anything altered, I replied by no means, and that what I had said solely arose on his own account. [[underline]] This I say to you alone [[/underline]]
