Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

April 11. The appointment of Mr. Temple to be Consul-General from the British court in America, has astonished no less those who are at a loss to find out the necessity of such an office, than those who are acquainted with the man. Mr. Temple was formerly a surveyor of the British customs, and dismissed for being supposed to hold a correspondence with the enemy during the time of war: Mr. Temple is an American; his interest and his property, if he has any, lies entirely in that country: what Minister then would intrust such a man with the chief superintendence of our commerce, but had before appointed the American Oswald, to negotiate between his own country and this the provisional articles of peace, as plenipotentiary on the part of Britain.