Copy of a letter from Rear-Adm. Sir Samuel Hood to Adm. Sir George Rodney, giving the totals of the French and British fleets in the West Indies and the movements of the latter towards St Kitts, and describing Hood's intention to sail to the relief of the island; and a duplicate copy in a different hand [0662a].
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seek the Enemy, and to do the best I am able for the relief of St. Kitts. My Rendezvous is St. Johns Road Antigua, and I am in hopes to be joined by the Prudent in going to that Island, She parted with Commodore Affleck, who arrived here from New York on the 12th, had been off English Harbour the day before the Commodore called there, and there is reason to fear she returned with a Sprung Main Mast. The Royal Oak is also in English Harbour but without a lower Mast, so that I have no prospect of any service from her. The Russel Saild from the Port a [[underline]] Second [[/underline]] time with the Whitby Armd Ship on the 3rd, and I am sorry to find by the Master of the Dispatch Schooner from St. Kitts, that both Sailed from thence on the 9th in the Evening, and were standing [[catchword]] into [[/catchword]]
