S54 COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE British capitalists and merchants of respectability. The advantages to be derived from such an establishment as is here contemplated, if not evident to Great Britain, is clearly visible to Holland, to France, and to America. The projector, therefore, without mentioning the offers that have been made to him by a foreign maritime power, and without courting the suffrages of British merchants in support of this plan, has it in contemplation, {provided no attention is paid to it in England,) to lay this eligible scheme open to a foreign power. If therefore, the projector should accept employment in this undertaking from a foreign power, it will be in the conviction, that it is more to the interest of mankind in general, and to Europe in partieular, that this plan for opening an extensive, lucrative, and beneficial commerce with Africa, (which would necessarily lead to its civilisation,) should be known to, and adopted by, aforeign power, than that this vast and little-known continent should, (to the indelible disgrace of civilised Europe,) still continue to remain an useless and an undiscovered country to the present generation ! James Grey Jackson.

Appendix to theforegoing Prospectus, being an Epitome of the Trade carried on by Great Britain and the European States in the Mediterranean, indirectly "joith Timbuctoo, the Commercial Depot of North Africa, and with other States of Sudan.

Marseilles, Genoa, Leghorn, and other commercial ports of France and Italy, as well as of