Letter from Rear-Adm. Sir Samuel Hood to General Jacob de Budé, describing British attempts to reach the garrison on Brimstone Hill [on St Kitts] and its eventual surrender to the French, reporting his squadron's subsequent departure from the area to join the fleet at Barbados, on their lack of bread, on the strength of the French fleet and their movements, and commenting what could have been achieved against the French if Rear-Admiral Kempenfelt had come to the West Indies.
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Admiral with his Squadron had joined me when the Tisiphone did, we should have been able to have destroyed De Grasse in a couple of hours, and have saved St Christophers. But it is a truly meloncholly circumstance to be labouring to protect men, who wish not to be protected, and who for the greater part, seem to prefer french to English Government, I mean the residents of the Islands, and not the proprietors of Lands in England. It is by mens actions alone, you can judge them I am ever with great Truth and affection my dear General Your very sincere and faithfull humble Servant Saml Hood
