Fowls 176 Geese 167 Goats and Ewes 189 Hanning, Mr. Wm. 99 Hill, Mr. 98 Hops 202 Ice-houses 236 Leghorn 212 Libel Laws 108 Malthus, Parson 141 Mangel Wurzel 254 Mustard 198 Parks, Mr. 98 Paul, Saint 148 Peel's flimsy Dresses 152 Pigeons 181 Pigs, keeping 139 Pitt's false Money 152 Plat, English Straw 208 Porter, how to make 71 Potatoes 77 Rabbits 184 Salting Mutton and Beef 157 Stanhope, Lord 144 Swedish Turnips 207 Turkeys 171 Walter's and Stoddart's Paragraphs 152 Walter Scott's Poems 152 Want, the Parent of Crime 18 Wakefield, Mr. Edward 78, 99 Wilberforce's Potatoe-Diet 152 Winchelsea, Lord. 144 Woodhouse, Miss 213 Yeast 203 COBBETT'S POOR MAN'S FRIEND; A DEFENCE OF THE RIGHTS OF THOSE WHO DO THE WORK, AND FIGHT THE BATTLES. COBBETT'S POOR MAN'S FRIEND. NUMBER I. TO THE WORKING CLASSES OF PRESTON. _Burghclere, Hampshire, 22d August, 1826._ MY EXCELLENT FRIENDS, 1. Amongst all the new, the strange, the unnatural, the monstrous things that mark the present times, or, rather, that have grown out of the present system of governing this country, there is, in my opinion, hardly any thing more monstrous, or even so monstrous, as the language that is now become fashionable, relative to the condition and the treatment of that part of the community which are usually denominated the POOR; by which word I mean to designate the persons who, from age, infirmity, helplessness, or from want of the means of gaining anything by labour, become destitute of a sufficiency of food or of raiment, and are in danger of perishing if they be not relieved. Such are the persons that we mean when we talk of THE POOR; and, I repeat, that amongst all the monstrous things of these monstrous days, nothing is, in my opinion, so monstrous as the language which we now constantly hear relative to the condition and treatment of this part of the community.