Shall we, who will not suffer foreign nations to rob us, sit tamely still to be robbed by a handful of goldmongers at home?
Subtitle: a lecture on the permanent national measure of value, and all its various influences on our nation : in thirty-eight chapters
By: by Edmund [Taunton], a Manchester foreign merchant of ... delivered in the Town Hall, Birmingham on Tuesday, July 4, 1854
Series: Making of the Modern World, Part IV: 1800-1890; Making of the Modern World, Part IV: 1800-1890
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Published: 1854
Place of publication: Place of publication not identified]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 40
Subjects: Money; Value; Currency question
Other titles: Permanent national measure of value, and all its various influences on our nation
Notes: "Unfolding incredible causes, effects, and future happy results for Great Britain, with perfect Free Trade by impartial taxation, reducing all taxes to only 2 per cent., and paying off the National Debt the fifth time over in eight years more, and the surprising anomaly that Protection gives Free Trade, through the Patriot Pitt's till hitherto lost secret system of Finance. Entered at Stationer's Hall."

Signed (page 40): "Edmund Taunton."

Reproduction of the original from the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature, Senate House Library, University of London.

Shelfmark number: [G.L.] E.854.