Letter from Rear-Adm. Sir Samuel Hood to General Jacob de Budé, and duplicate [0622a], reporting on the confusion which had arisen over the sharing between the Army and the Navy of the booty acquired from the capture of St Eustatius island, on account of the involvement of an outside agency (Mr Akers of St Kitts) and Captain Young, whom Hood denounces.
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Mr. Akers; the very man Sir George Rodney had pointed but to his Captains, as a very improper person to be trusted; and he has been the receiver of the money at the sales, and suffered whole Cargoes to be carried off without payment, making himself responsible for the money This threw things into great confusion, the orders given one day were contradicted the next, by which, they were doing & undoing, without getting forward, and was three months about in a very confused and irregular manner, [[addition]] what [[/addition]] might have been executed in an effectual & perfectly satisfactory manner to each Corps, had the first plan been strictly adhered to, and at this hour things remain in a very unsettled state. However it affords me very great satisfaction that though the naval Gentlemen were reduced [[catchword]] to [[/catchword]]
