Letter from Rear-Adm. Sir Samuel Hood to General Jacob de Budé reporting the sailing of a large French fleet and convoy from Martinique towards St Domingo but uncertainty as to its ultimate intent, and on the poor condition of the British fleet which resulted in his being sent to Antigua to collect stores, and announcing that he may be going with a squadron to America.

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to the Eastward of this Island, so that I sett her down in some port of England, before the first of August, if she meets no interruption from the Enemy on her passage; and as the Pacquet sailed from St. Eustatius [[addition]] ^ on the 9th [[/addition]] in which are some letters of mine to you / she will not be many days after the Scourge I dare say. July 20th. Sir George Rodney arrived here the 18th. full of complaints, will see no one being unable to do business, and yet cannot bring himself to declare his intentions of going home, and to put his Majestys Fleet under my command--By which the King's Service suffers. The Report is that I am going with a Squadron to America--Indeed Sir George hinted such a measure to me at Barbadoes, If I am to go the sooner the better; as it appears to me of much consequence to be upon the Coast before the Enemy. I will have the honor of writing you again in a few days, by another Pacquet. I am ever my dear General. most faithfully yours Saml Hood