Letter from Rear-Adm. Sir Samuel Hood to General Jacob de Budé debating what actions the various enemy commanders may take and describing what action he thinks the British fleet should take to counteract the various possible threats, expressing disapproval at Lord Rodney's commandeering of several ships 'to protect his own person', agreeing with comments by French commanders that the British do not know how to make use of its victory in April, and reporting that he had calmed Adm. Pigot's fears about troops and ships which had arrived from Carolina, and offered him advice. Also, near duplicate of part of letter dated 8 April [but undated itself: 0711a].
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August 10th/ The Germain Sloop, joined this morning, left Blue fields the 29th. of last month, when the monarch was under sail for Port Royal, attended by the [[unclear]] frigate the Captain of the Germain, spoke with Admiral Graves on monday the 5th. ten Leagues to the westward of Cape Antonio; The Gloviense & Jason had not joined but were not more, than a dozen Leagues astern both which the Germain saw the day before, and as the Hydra, with several merchant Ships left behind were following to overtake the Convoy, I imagine Admiral Graves would lay two, or make moderate till the two Captured Ships, and the Trade came up. I think no other man in the world, but Lord Rodney would have deprived the Convoy of such additional strength as the Resolution & Montagu, and have taken the nonsuch, Anson, Flora, and Alert Sloop, to protect his own person, through the windward passage, and I am told means to take the two Latter with him to England, as well as the [[catchword]] Resolution [[/catchword]]
