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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June 2d: At Noon. Mr: Drake & his Ships to Leeward a Cutter just arrived-- DeGrasse's with all his force off Tobago. On the 31st: of May, in much hurry going to Seak the Enemy-- I leave this at Barbadoes to be sent by the Pacquet. Ever Yours. SH
