text:  In an interview with the vizir he was graciously received and invested with a robe of honour; but as he quitted the Porte he was arrested and carried to the Seven Towers where two days after (in spite of the intercession of the Sultana-Walidah and the refusal of the mufti to ratify the unjust doom ) he was bowstrung in his cell as the murmurs of the troops prevented the vizir from risking a public execution