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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Resolution; His Flag is on board the Montagu, which, I shall not wonder if he shifts, to one of the other Ships before he passes the Lattitude of Bermuda; Surely no Country ever produced since another man! One should have thought any rational person in his Lordships Situation, would have taken his passage in the Jupiter; If any accident befalls the convoy, which the above two seventy four Gun Ships, would have prevented he will have much to answer for. The daily declarations of Vandreuil and all the French officers at Cape Francois, to Capt. Merrick & Captn Ball--were, we cannot deny you gained a most complete victory on the 12th. of April, but you on your part, must acknowledge you knew not how to make use of it--nothing was ever more true to the everlasting disgrace of the Commander in Chief August 12th. Since my confinement by the accident to my Leg, I have been very much indisposed, with a complaint I have Laboured under for years, in my Stomach & Bowels; but keep this to yourself for if my wife knows it, she will be miserable. This morning I had a note from Admiral Pigot, who seemed much alarmed [[catchword]] by [[/catchword]]
