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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and upon receiving intelligence to be relied upon, that the design of an attack is abandoned; the fleet should push away to windward: but a frigate should immediately be dispatched to Barbadoes, whose Captain should be most strictly ordered to join at New York, as [[underline]] expeditiously [[/underline]] as possible, and another frigate or the Leander, should be directed from that quarter to cruize for the fleet, between Cape Francois, and the grand Caygnes, that the commander in Chief me not be ignorant of the State of the Enemy, and of the windward Islands But should the french Squadron be found harboured upon the coast of America, a sufficient force must be left to watch it, and the rest of the Ships should proceed off Cape Francois to guard that Port, against Solano's entrance or Vandreuil's, should he slip by the Squadron cruizing against him.
