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London, England, 1830-07-28 00:00:00

N°. 13,537. WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 28, 1830. PRICE 7D.

MR. BUCKINGHAM'S VOYAGE.

THE following is an authentic Copy of the PLAN
proposed for effecting a VOYAGE ROUND THE
GLOBE, by the route of INDIA, CHINA, JAPAN, and the
PACIFIC ISLES, for the purposes of Discovery, Civilization,
and Commerce, combined.

To be performed under the Direction and Command of
J. S. BUCKINGHAM,
Author of Travels in Palestine—in Syria—•in Arabia—in Mesopo-
tamia—and in Persia ; Member of the Literary Societies of
Bombay and Madras--of the Asiatic Society of Bengal—and of
the Geographical Society of London.
In the course of which It is intended to promote and accomplish
the following interesting and important objects of private and
public benefit :

pin ; and because every improvement in the Charts of unknown
Coasts and Seas, Increases the safety of Navigation and Trade.
s.—From the Blanufacturera :—Because the stagnation under
which all classes now labour from the increased power of production
by means of machinery, can only be relieved by the opening new
sources of consumption—and discovering new articles of Commercial
return.

6 —From the Shipowners :—Because the extreme depression of
the Shipping Interest arises from the competition of foreign vessels
sailing cheaper than English ones, and occupying the carrying trade
of Europe : which can only be relieved by extending our maritime
trade to distant parts of the world, where, from the imperfect know.
ledge of navigation and seamanship, no such competition will he met,
but the superiority of British skill and experience will secure to
British ships by far the largest portion of the maritime conveyanc..
7.—From the Ladies of England generally :—Because one of the
most distitguishing as well as the most revolting features of Eastern
manners, and of semi-barbarous life every where, is the enslaved and
degraded condition of women; and because it has been universally
found that wherever nations or people become improved in their
knowledge, or advanced in the scale of civilisation by intercourse
with a superior race, there the condition of women is ameliorated :
and this effect becoming again a cause, creates a further improve.
ment in the condition of men : thus augmenting and reproducing
good, until at length wives become the intellectual and honored
companions, instead of being the degraded slaves of their husbands
—and mothers become the cultivated instructors, instead of being
the mere nurses of their children.

B.—And Lastly :.—From Public Literary Institutions and from
the Conductors of the Public Press :—=Because, every acquisition
made to the stores of knowledge increases their power and importance,
as the great directing engine by which public opinion is regulated
and swayed :—and because all the preceding classes already enume-
rated, are under the inducnce of their dominion and controul.

lt may be added, that since this Plan of the voyage wait first sent
to the Press, anAssociation for effecting a portion at least of the same
objects, has been established in Paris, under the title of The So-
ciety of Civilization," at the head of which is the Count de Laborde,
supported by most of the Nobility and learned Men in France : and
we have long had in England an association for discovering the
Interior of Africa—u well as another for improving the condition of
its unhappy people,— both of which are honoured with the names
and support of some of the noblest Families in England.
The difficulty of effecting such objects by a single Association
is, however, exceedingly great :—first, from the impossibility of
obtaining sufficient funds from the small annual subscriptions of
four or five hundred members only, and from the cost of all the
operations being wholly an outlay of expense, without any sources
of profit from which to defray them ; and, secondly, from the diver.
sity of opinion and distraction of councils, inseparable from an
Association, being most prejudicial to the rapid and decisive exe-
cution of indispensably prompt and energetic measures.
The present expedition will be free from all these difficulties : as
if the ship be once floated from the shores of England at the pub-
lic expense, the expedition will then maintain ttself without further
aid, by the ordinary sources of trade and profit in the route; while
a single directing mind, assisted only by the scientific companions
and fellow-officers of the voyage, who will be selected with reference
to their skill in each department of knowledge, will unite energy and
prudence with promptitude, decision, and dispatch.
Of my own qualiheations for this undertaking, I will say only
this : That from my cradle, the love of enterprise and the ambition
of discovery and improvement have been my leading passions. I
went to sea at nine years of age—obtained a maritime command
before I was twenty-one—have visited in that capacity' almost
all parts of the world—the West Indies, North and South America,
the Mediterranean, Turkey, Egypt, the Red Sea, the Persian Gulf,
the East Indies, including Bombay, Ceylon, Madras, and Bengal—
and have travelled by land far into the interior of Egypt, Nubia,
Arabia, Palestine, Syria, Mesopotamia, Babylonia, Media, andl
Persia. I have adopted the costume, learnt the tongue, and accus-
tomed myself to the manners of almost all the several countries
named, and passed with safety and respect through each. lam in
my forty-fourth year, sufficiently strong, healthy, vigorous, and
energetic, for any enterprise of difficulty and danger—and with
enough of experience to assist my judgment, without extinguishing
my seal ; while the books I have written, and the discourses or lec-
tor* I have delivered, of which not less than 100,000 different in-
dividuals in various parts of England have been the witnesses, will
confirm my capacity to collect infotmation, to record it in writing,
and to impart it verbally to others.
The only means 1 ask for conducting and commanding this En-
terprize is this :-...that the Ship and her equipments—such as the
means thus raised may furnish—be in the first instance provided by
the-British Public, leaving every subsequent expense of the Voyage
to be paid out of her trading freights or gains :—and that all the
matey hiis thus supplied to me as instruments with which to effect the
undertaking, be placed entirely at my disposal :—on the pledge that
after this Voyage round the Globe has been performed, and the ob-
jects accomplished, as far as may be found practicable according to
the Plan detailed above, a faithful Narrative of the Proceedings of
the Expedition, from its departure till its return, shall be published,
for the honour of those who may contribute to its formation, and it
is hoped for the benefit of the orld at large.
London, July, 1830. J. S. BUCKINGHAM.