Letter from Rear-Adm. Sir Samuel Hood to General Jacob de Budé reporting recent action against a French squadron in the Caribbean and his fear of an attack on St Lucia, enclosing extracts of letters to Sir George Rodney concerning the skirmish [GEO/ADD/15/618] and complaining that his squadron is 'unmeaningly stationed'.
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Admiral, had so manifest a superiority, and the choice of distance, he has I thank God, nothing to boast. I beg leave to trouble you with an exact similar detail of the skirmish, as I have given it to Sir George Rodney, with my Line of Battle a List of the Killed and wounded, and an account of the numbers, sick & short of Complement by death, in the King’s Squadron under my Command; all which I most humbly request you will do me the honor to lay before His Majesty; and I hope and trust I shall appear in the royal judgement, to have been in no One Instance deficient in my duty. Never was a Squadron my dear General so unnmeaningly stationed, as the one under my Command, and what Sir George Rodney’s motive for it could be, I cannot conceive unless it was, to cover him at St. Eustatius and it is equally as difficult to be accounted for by Mr. Drake, and all the Captains; for what [[catchword]] solid [[/catchword]]
