Letter from Rear-Adm. Sir Samuel Hood to General Jacob de Budé, mostly a duplicate of 0678, but with further comment on Sir George Rodney's character, and a postscript reporting information obtained from some black deserters that the French fleet were likely to sail shortly to join the Spanish, and Hood's hope that this might lead to battle.
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April 3. 1782 [[underline]] Private [[/underline]] My dear General Three of Admiral Drake's division having crippled their masts in the night of the 31st. past-- the [[underline]] whole [[/underline]] are now [[underline]] called in, [[/underline]], which I very much rejoice at and hope we shall all be in good condition for service before the Enemy quits port Royal What Sir George proposes to do, I cannot say, but from what I hear from those who have the goodness to come to me (for I have been confined to my cabbin some days, but am getting better) he seems to have no plan. He told Admiral Drake yesterday, he would go to [[underline]] windward, [[/underline]] and [[underline]] others [[/underline]] almost in the same breath, that he would past directly to Jamaica --well but Sir George says a shrewd captain of my division, then present, suppose DeGrasse, should think the force already in the neighborhood of Jamaica, equal to the conquest of the Island, assisted by a body of Troops, he has sent, or may send, and remains in force at port Royal. What will become of all these Islands? His Answer was in his accustomed [[catchword]] off [[/catchword]]
