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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Bombs; having under their convoy 200 sail of merchant ships: God send the whole may arrive safe, and that I may be able to fill a page of good news to you before & quite the Coast of America. The Barfleur is now under sail, I can therefore add most unfey'ned assurances of being, with real truth & esteem my dear General your ever faithfull & obliged humble servant Saml Hood PS Mr. Stillingfeet is & behaves most exceeding well, and I believe he is perfectly satisfied with his situation
