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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York to disembark the troops, I do not mean to go with the ships of my Squadron within the Bar, if I can possibly help it, and have requested Admiral Graves, to send a frigate on before to have transports ready to receive the troops, that I may not lose a moments time in returning for the protection of our Royal masters possessions in the West Indies, but whether my wishes in this respect will be complied with, I have not as yet been told. I wish Admiral Digby could think it right to send apart of his ship's with me till the month of March as he has no place of safety to put them [[catchword]] in [[/catchword]]
