1_st_. 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.
2_dly_, 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 influence of which sources of prosperity
will necessarily diffuse itself through all classes_.
3_dly_, 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
252 have been undertaken_,) by opening a communication with the natives
of that vast and little-known continent, and BY CALLING TO OUR AID
THE CO-OPERATION OF THE NATIVE CHIEFS, BY HOLDING OUT TO THEM THE
BENEFITS WHICH THEY WILL DERIVE FROM COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE AS A
REWARD FOR THEIR ASSISTANCE AND EXERTIONS IN PROMOTING THIS
DESIRABLE OBJECT.