Letter from Rear-Adm. Sir Samuel Hood to General Jacob de Budé sending thanks for letters received, promising to assist Mr Stillingfleet [?] in his naval career, expressing appreciation for the King's decision to award the booty taken at St Eustatius to the British Fleet and Navy, describing recent actions against the enemy and the subsequent movements and state of various British ships, reporting the landing of enemy troops on St Lucia and their subsequent hasty departure, and his fear that enemy forces were heading to the East Indies and America.
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If the snake Brig meets no interruption in her passage to England, which sailed from St. Kitts on the 9th you will know before this reaches you, that I had a [[underline]] Long Shot [[/underline]] action on the 29th. of last month in sight of Fort Royal with 23 sail of the Line (to my 18) under the Command of the Count De Grasse, having [[underline]] Marin & Vaudreuel [[/underline]] with him, both [[underline]] Admirals. [[/underline]] The Russel was obliged to quit the Line, and seek her safety as she could that evening, but I continued with 17 sail, about 3 miles to leeward of the Enemy offering to renew the Battle, till the next night when finding the Centaur & Intrepid could not keep their stations from their Leaks, owing to a number of shot they had received under water, and that the lower masts of the Montagn & Torbay, were badly wounded and otherwise much damaged, and knowing [[addition]] ^ the Squadron [[/addition]] was very sickly and short of Comp Cement by death, I thought it my duty to bear up, and made the signal at 8 oclock. with this you [[catchword]] will [[/catchword]]
