Extracts from letters from Rear-Adm. Sir Samuel Hood to Adm. Sir George B. Rodney [enclosure of 0617], requesting that the British fleet's position might be changed if St Eustatius is unlikely to be attacked, enclosing a letter [not on file] reporting on the approach of an enemy squadron and a likely merchant convoy and suggesting consequent action, on the capability of enemy ships to move in and out of certain ports, on sickness (from scurvy) in British ships and on ship movements in the area generally.
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Extracts of Letters from Rear Admiral Sir Samuel Hood Bart. to Admiral Sir George Bridges Rodney Bart. Knt. of the Bath &c. &c. &c. [[note]] Extract of a Letter Dated 1st April 1781 [[/note]] I begin to be extremely impatient for the honor of seeing, and Acting immediately under your Flag, as I do not feel myself at all pleasant in being to Leeward, for should an Enemy’s Fleet attempt to get into Martinique, and the Commander of it inclines to avoid Battle, nothing but a [[underline]] Skirmish [[/underline]] will probably happen, which in its [[underline]] consequences [[/underline]] may opperate as a defeat to the British Squadron, though not a Ship is lost, and the Enemy suffered most. If therefore your apprehensions are over with respect to an attempt upon St. Eustatias by a Coup de Main, and think the Dutch Convoy safe from the Ships now at Fort Royal, I most humbly beg leave to Suggest, with all due submission to your better and more Enlightened Judgment; Whether it would not be more adviseable, when the whole of the very Respectable Force you have done me the honor to commit to my Charge, are Watered, [[catchword]] Stored [[/catchword]]
