text:  The restraint which the ferocious energy of Sultan Mourad-Ghazi during the latter years of his reign had succeeded in imposing on the turbulence of the Janissaries [1] vanished at his death; and for many years subsequently the domestic annals of the Ottoman capital are filled with the details of the intrigues of women and eunuchs within the palace and the sanguinary feuds and excesses of the soldiery without