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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in the latter) to Fort Royal Bay, and St. Piers Martinique, which Ports I had looked into three days ago, where everything was in the same state, as when Gnichen sailed for Europe. It is in my humble opinion quite impossible for a great convoy to pass me unnoticed, and if I see nothing of it, in the course of a few days more, I shall be confirmed, in what I took the liberty of suggesting to Sir George Rodney before I left St. Eustatius, that its destination was North America, but I hope in God, I am mistaken and that I shall soon be so fortunate as [[catchword]] to [[/catchword]]