Letter from Rear-Adm. Sir Samuel Hood to General Jacob de Budé reporting on French convoys in the Caribbean, the positioning of British ships looking out for them, and his suspicion that a French convoy may be heading for North America despite his hope that 'I shall soom be so fortunate as to have the Enemy in full view'.
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25d:00m. Longd 26d:00m; I am confident they are not arrived at any of the wind ward Islands unless they mad Tobago, and went to Grenada which I think scare possible they would do, I have had a Frigate to the eastward of the Island Descada, and another off Mari Galante to the Northward, one off Barbadoes & another off Point Salines Martinique to the Southward and I have taken my Station off Dominica as it is agreed by every one, that the French Convoys have for some time past, made Descada, and gone between the Islands of Marigalante & Dominica (as they can take [[catchword]] Shelter [[/catchword]]
