Letter from Rear-Adm. Sir Samuel Hood to General Jacob de Budé, enclosing correspondence exchanged with Adm. Sir George Rodney [0685-6], complaining of Rodney's actions and the failures to take advantage of the fleeing French fleet and describing some movements of the British and French fleets.
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Barfleur off Alcavala St. Domingo April 22d. 1782 my dear General After trying every method to induce Sir George Rodney to [[underline]] quit [[/underline]] the Ville De Paris, and pursue the [[underline]] flying french [[/underline]] fleet, to no purpose — In answer to a note I received from him on the 17th in the morning, I put the following P.S. “As I understood the Royal Oak, Alcide & Centaur with the prizes the Glorieux & Hector, are gone towards Jamaica, will they not be in great danger, from our being so far astern?” This brought me a letter from Sir George of which No 1 is a copy; and No 2 is a copy of my letter to him ( [[underline]] public [[/underline]] ) Now where my dear General, was Sir George Rodney’s judgement, to subject me with only [[underline]] ten [[/underline]] sail of the Line, to fall in with [[underline]] twenty [[/underline]] at [[underline]] least [[/underline]] of the Enemy’s; keeping at the same time [[underline]] twenty two [[/underline]] with him, to take care of the Ville de Paris, without the smallest, prospect of meeting a single French ship of war? The Enemy’s fleet, which that [[underline]] noble one [[/underline]] of His Majesty’s has put to flight on the 12th to the number twenty Six including Frigates, passed the Mona passage on the [[catchword]] 18th. [[/catchword]]
