The report of Hiram Maxwell's case : decided at the City-Hall of the city of New-York, on the 3d day of February, 1823 : with the speech and doctrine advanced by John A. Graham, LL. D., on the practice of taking the examinations and confessions in the police office of prisoners charged with crime : together with the letters and opinions of many of the greatest and wisest philosophers, civilians, orators and statesmen in the United States.