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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I feel vastly comfortable, at my being absent from St. Eustatius, while these matters were in hand. and it is generally understood that the Ships of Conscience hurried Capt. young out of the world for so soon as he died, Things were altered, and the two Commanders in Chief, after the great mischief was done, desired they might revert in the first mode settled, and Sir George Rodney has given it under his hand, that he put his name to the power of Agency, with Genl. Vaughan [[underline]] inadvertently [[/underline]] and without knowing the purport of it, what inconsistent conduct! but strange as it may appeer, it is no less time, that Capt. Young had some how or other, gott such an ascendency [[catchword]] over [[/catchword]]
