Letter from Rear-Adm. Sir Samuel Hood to General Jacob de Budé reporting on British ships' movements in the Caribbean in connection with possibly false news of a French fleet at Martinique.

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five miles of the men of war in the Bay, & was positive no more than four ships of the Line and three Frigates were there; and as the Prince William came round point Salines on her return to me, so large a Fleet must have been seen, had it taken that Track & on [[underline]] that day. [[/underline]] From these circumstances I was well satisfied in my own mind, no Enemy's Fleet was arrived at Martinique, and that the report was raised, by the [[underline]] trucking, rascally vermin [[/underline]] at St. Christophers. to take Sir George Rodney from St. Eustatius, or else, of the French to take me from the windward of the Islands: I therefore thought it very much my duty, to move with caution, and thinking it of no moment (ever [[catchword]] if [[/catchword]]


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