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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with Troops, he had detached to Tobago; in that case Sir George Rodney would be prepared to give him a proper reception. My other reason was that if he mett no Enemy at Tobago, and all was safe, we should most probably be able to fetch St Lucia in [[underline]] force [[/underline]], when we could not return to this Island. But when Sir George Rodney went on board, he ordered Six Sail of the Line, three frigates and three smaller Vessels to go to Tobago, under the Command of Rear Admiral Drake, and they Sailed that Evening the 29th, since which nothing has been heard from him; and as information has been received, that DeGrasse with his whole Fleet, was stretching to the South East with all the Sail he could sett, it is to be apprehended he is gone to Tobago. and our fears are alive upon that account, as Mr. Drake may get very disagreeably entangled. When a Squadron divides in this Country, a junction of it becomes very precarious, at any given place and time, from the Strength and uncertainty of the Currents, for very often, on one side of an Island it setts to the Windward, and on the other to Leeward [[catchword]] and [[/catchword]]
