Letter from Rear-Adm. Sir Samuel Hood to General Jacob de Budé, announcing that he had acquired the requested wine for Prince Frederick and reporting on his and the British Navy's activities in the Caribbean, including the fact that Sir George Rodney had handed the command of the British fleet into his hands and was returning to England, the appearance of various French and American vessels in the area and his hope to reach America before the enemy's ships, and the arrival of a number of Spanish ships at the Cape after the storming of Pensaecola.
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to tell you, that it is on board the Barfleur. I left St. Johns road on the 26th. of last month, with part of my Squadron for Montserrat to compleat our water, sending the remainder to St. Kitts for the same purpose--at that time my orders were. to go as far to Leeward as Cape Tiberoon, with the Jamaica Trade, and then make the best of my way to America on the 29th. I anchored in Basseterre road St. Kitts seeing Sir George Rodney & Rear Admiral Drake there upon waiting upon Sir George, I was told, that La Motte Piquet, was arrived at Martinique, with Six sail of the Line, and a pretty large convoy. This occasioned Sir George to take two of my Squadron away to go with Mr. Drake to St. Lucia--I tarried but a few hours at Basseterre, and proceeded here; next morning Sir George Rodney followed me, and I found a total change had taken place--That Rear Admiral Drake was about to sail immediately with Six sail & that [[catchword]] the [[/catchword]]
