Letter from Rear-Adm. Sir Samuel Hood to General Jacob de Budé, partly duplicate of 0680, but forcibly expressing his disappointment at not pursuing and capturing the fleeing French fleet, criticising the abilities and actions of Sir Charles Douglas and Adm. Sir George Rodney, and remarking that his (Hood's) health has suffered as a result of 'seeing things go as they do'.
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Royal, and most gracious master's affairs, might have been given, not only in the country, but every where else, with common management, and most shamefully neglected? I find all this waiting here is to take the Ville de Paris with him to Jamaica such is the vanity of the man; would to god she had sunk, the instant she had yielded to the arms of His Majesty. What think you, of Sir George Rodney, and his first Captain, to suffer so great a fleet to put to Sea, without a rendezvous and in pursuit of an Enemy, when either a victory or a defeat, must unavoidably have occasioned a seperation. Strange as it may appear, it is no less true--not a Rendezvous was given out till the 13th. The Royal oak Aleide & Centaur, with the prizes Glorieux and Nector, [[addition]] ^ had then [[/addition]] parted company; very luckily the alert Brig by accident fell in with them; whose Capt. [[catchword]] having [[/catchword]]
