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 join me off St. John's Road Antigua, to which place I shall proceed in an hour, as being to windward, and a fairer situation for a quick passage to America, than from hence; and I shall hold the Squadron in readiness to gett under sail the moment Mr. Drake appears in sight. The Business of America seems at the present moment to be critical, I shall therefore take with me every ship I can, and reckon upon 14 of the Line I have already dispatch'd a frigate to the Commanding Admiral upon that station; (would to god my Friend Digby may be the man for many reasons) to say, I am coming, that I shall first look into the Chesapeake, afterwards proceed to the capes of the Delaware, and from thence to New York, if I receive no intelligence to occasion a deviation from my present intentions. Sir George Rodney sailed yesterday in the Gibralter with the Triumph, Panther, Boreas frigate, & two [[catchword]] Bombs [[/catchword]]
