Copy of a letter from Capt. John Ford to 'Mr Printer' [the printer of a Barbados paper?], requesting him to insert the succeeding text into his newspaper, denouncing a letter purportedly from an officer on board the 'Nymphe' reporting on action against the French fleet on 5 September 1781, which letter had been reproduced in certain London newspapers.
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Sir Samuel Hood, and more especially to the Officers &c of this fleet, who well know the Medea was sent to England without any previous notice, & that the Nymphe was stationed off the Chesapeak and did not arrive in Port untill the 16th of October following without any opportunity of conveying a letter on shore before that time.
