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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against our arrival, but had been driven by the Current to Leeward and did not come in till the 28th: in the Evening, they had stretched to the Southward in sight of Tobago, and Captain Robinson of the Cyclops, said, he saw nine Sail of the Enemy's Ships near the Island, and that three he was sure were of two Decks; before daylight in morning accounts were brought from St: Lucia that 20 Sail of the Line & three frigates were cruizing between that Island & Martinique which Captain Affleck sent me word of, that a detachment was to go to Tobago, and the rest with Sir George Rodney to St: Lucia; This alarmed me most exceedingly, as I saw great danger in dividing the Squadron; and as I knew Sir George Rodney slept at the Governors, and that General Vaughan was there also, I sent a note at day light to General Cuningham to the following purpose. ,, That I rejoiced very much we had some ,, account, of the Enemy's Fleet, which I supposed ,, would induce Sir George Rodney to keep all his ,, Ships together, that I could not help thinking [[catchword]] ,, that [[/catchword]]


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