S51 PROSPECTUS OF A PLAN FOR FORMING A NORTH AFRICAN OR SUDAN COMPANY, To be instituted for the purpose of establishing an extensive Commerce with, and laying open to British Enterprise, all the Interior Regions of North Africa.

OBJECTS OF THE SOCIETY.

IsL To lay open the interior regions of North Africa to British enterprise — to supply those vast and unexplored countries with British manufactures, with East-India goods, and with colonial produce.

dl, To encourage our manufactories, by opening a new market calculated to improve the revenue of the country, to provide employment for the labouring poor, and to enrich the mercantile community ; the genial irifliience of which sources of prosperity will necessarily diffuse itself through all classes, Sdlyy To facilitate, through the medium of commerce {the only medium by which it can possibly be effected), the exploration of the interior regions of Africa, (which have remained to this day a sealed book, notwithstanding the many adventurous expeditions that have been undertakeny) by opening a communication with the natives