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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which is what I could not have expected from General Vaughan; he made no reply, but turned and addressed himself to some one Else. The Truth is I am afraid he could not bear the thoughts of leaving a St. Eustatius, where there were as he thought so much riches, and I dare say he would have been at this hour, had not the arrival of the force under De Grasse obliged him to decamp. A pretty large Sum was levied upon the Inhabitants, and some of the of the Captains asked the commissary General what the Sum really was, he Answered he could not say exactly, but something more than £80,000, and yet, there is now I am told no more than £20,000, brought to account. The Lures of St: Eustatius were so bewitching as not to be withstood by flesh and blood. (as Lord Clive said in the House of Commons) but tempting as they were I am abudantly more happy in being at a distance, and it would doubtless have been fortunate [[catchword]] had [[/catchword]]
