Letter from Rear-Adm. Sir Samuel Hood to General Jacob de Budé basically repeating (almost verbatim) the contents of 0648, but with the addition of reporting the arrival of two more British ships and, in the postscript, that the British fleet was still at Sandy Hook 'to my unspeakable concern' but that he hoped it would be on its way to the Chesapeake the following day and thus able to offer relief to Lord Cornwallis.
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Barfleur Staten Island Octr. 12th. 1781 My dear General Though I had the honor of writing to you the end of last Month by a Pacquet, as also this day to go by the Lively Brig, I cannot let another pacquet sail of which I have just rec’d notice from Sir H. Clinton, without recapitulating the substance of each letter, to guard against any miscarriage in thee precarious times We arrived off the Bar of this port, from the coast of Virginia on the 19th in the evening and within the Hook the next day, when I was told R.A. Graves had dispatched the Medea to England on the 17th. but gave the information no credit, but thinking it possible he could have done so, without communicating his intentions to me, but I was mistaken in my man. Was ever such unhandsome proceedings from one officer to another of the same rank, and who came [[catchword]] with [[/catchword]]
