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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The Intelligence from Santa Cruz says further that seven sail of Spanish men of war, were arrived at the Cape from Pensacola, which place had been taken by storm with great loss--That the Spaniards afterwards attempted Augustine but could not gett their ships over the Bar.