Letter from Rear-Adm. Sir Samuel Hood to General Jacob de Budé reporting that Lord Cornwallis had been forced to capitulate to superior French and American forces and his opinion that this could have been avoided, and announcing that he hoped to return as soon as possible to the West Indies 'for the protection of our Royal masters possessions'.
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the disabled ships, though it would have been a trying task I must confess, but desperate cases require bold remedies when we goff within New York bar, on the 20th. of last month. I much flattered myself we should have been [[underline]] in the [[/underline]] Cheaseapeak by the 12th. or 14th. of this month, but most truly lamentable to say we did not leave Sandy Hook till the 19th. I feel too much my dear General, and my mind is too deeply depressed, with the sense I have of my country's calamities to dwell upon the painfull subject we are I am told now going back to New [[catchword]] York [[/catchword]]
