Letter [copy?]from Rear-Adm. Sir Samuel Hood to General Jacob de Budé concerning the claiming of a Dutch convoy by Capt. Reynolds, Capt. Harvey and Lord Charles Fitzgerald, Hood's disappointment at not having the confidence of Sir George Rodney and his opinion of him, his actions with regard to possible enemy attacks on Tobago and Martinique (with a hurried postscript reporting that an enemy force was off Tobago, and that he was 'going to Seek the Enemy'), and interaction with Gen.Vaughan over a possible expedition to Curracoe.
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[[underline]] Duplicate [[/underline]] Barfleur Carlisle Bay Barbadoes 1st June 1781. My Dear General. I am exceedingly sorry that Captain Reynolds Captain Harvey, and Lord Charles Fitzgerald, should claim the Dutch Convoy to themselves, when Captn: Reynolds spoke of it to me immediately upon his coming in (for he was the man I named to Sir George Rodney, upon his asking me who he should send) I very plainly told him, I thought he was mistaken, for though the letter of the Act of Parliament may be in his favour, Yet I imagined about of Equity, must give it against him, and I am the more concerned at it, having most earnestly wished, nothing to arise, to break in upon & interrupt, the Harmony & good understanding, which ought ever to subsist between His Majesty's Land & Sea forces. The three Captains remain determined not to admit Shares, in the Dutch Convoy, for so Captain Reynolds expressed himself, when he signed the letter I wrote to Sir George Rodney which I sent you in my last. By Sir George Rodneys bringing Sir Chalr: Ogle from North America, and three Brigadeer Generals being made by General Vaughan, just before the Capture of St. Eustatius, [[catchword]] my [[/catchword]]
