text:  "Thou hast gone astray " said he "from the paths in which thy glorious ancestors walked and hast trampled under foot both law and religion and thou art no longer the padishah of the Moslems!" He was at last conducted to the same apartment whence he had been taken to ascend the throne and where ten days later his existence was terminated by the bowstring; while the Sultana-Walidah (whose acquiescence in this extraordinary revolution had been previously secured ) led into the _salamlik_ (hall of audience) her eldest grandson Mohammed [3] an infant scarcely seven years old who was forthwith seated on the imperial sofa and received the homage of the dignitaries of the realm