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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over Sir George, that he could gett his name to any paper he had a mind to carry to him on our anchoring here Sir George Rodney made Admiral Drake's and my signal with the signla for all the Captains, to come on board the Sandwich when he read the Kings sign manned wherein His majesty had been most graciously pleased to relinquish His right to the Booty of St. Eustatius to His Land & Sea forces, employed upon that Service, and afterwards desired they would attend the next morning on board the Barfleur to consider propositions I should then shew them which propositions he then gave, and [[addition]] at the desire [[/addition]] when [[addition]] ^ of some of the Captains [[/addition]] I asked in the presence of Admiral Drake, an explanation of them; he said they were not [[catchword]] sent [[/catchword]]


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