Matters of Josiah Oakes, Sen'r, four years wrongfully imprisoned in the McLean Asylum, through an illegal guardianship by means of bribery and false swearing : containing a full account of the hearing before the Supreme Court at Lowell with Judge Metcalfe's interested charge to the jury, contrary to law and evidence, and Chief Justice Shaw's opinion on the law respecting insane persons, confuted by extracts from the revised statutes showing it to be in direct opposition to the law : together with opinions of the press and much other interesting matter.