Letter from Rear-Adm. Sir Samuel Hood to General Jacob de Budé concerning his action against a larger French fleet on 29 and 30 April, and Sir George Rodney's conduct afterwards, commenting 'there is no truth in the man' [Rodney], and suggesting that Rodney should have engaged the smaller enemy fleet at Tobago before the larger French fleet had appeared.
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repeated his own words, as before related, and said, my mind was quite at ease, from a consciousness of having done my duty well; and that nothing gave me the least concern, but his asking the opinion of so young and so inexperienced an officer as captain Smith was, upon my conduct, after I had given him so particular, so candid, & so minute a detail of every circumstance he strongly denied his asking more, than the situation of the two Squadrons, which surely was very unnecessary, as my letter most fully and clearly explained it--But there is no truth in the man; --and as I wanted only, to let him see, that I felt his behaviour to me, I said not a word more, particularly, as I plainly observed, he was much dissatisfied with himself. [[catchword]] I [[/catchword]]
