text:  May God be merciful to him!" [8] De la Haye the French ambassador was imprisoned in 1658 and his son bastinadoed in the presence of Kiuprili for being unable or unwilling to give a key to some letters in cipher from the Venetians; and some years later the envoy of the Czar Alexis Mikhailowitz was driven with blows and violence from the presence of the sultan who was irritated by the incompetency of the interpreter to translate the Czar's letter! This latter outrage however was not till after the death of the elder Kiuprili