text:  The supreme power was now lodged in the hands of the young Sultana Walidah and her confidant the Kislar-Aga; but their inexperience was little qualified to encounter the task which had wellnigh baffled the energies of Kiosem; and the expedient of frequently changing the grand-vizir in obedience to the requisition of which ever party was for the time in the ascendant prevented the measures of government from acquiring even a shadow of consistence or stability