The aforementioned leader of the revolution, one of the Persian knights, struck him and killed him. His companions became agitated and rushed to the battle. Mustafa Pasha al-Bardar had, in the meantime, arrived at the outskirts of Constantinople with his organized army, and his brother, the Sultan, marched with Mustafa in a procession. With the entourage of the Reis al-Bahr, under the banner of the standard, an order was given to proclaim to the revolutionary soldiers to return to their homelands. Al-Bardar paid no heed to any of this and marched with his armies until he stood before the gate of the Imperial Palace. They threw him in, which frightened him more, then opened it and entered the palace. They demanded Sultan Selim, who was imprisoned, and took him from him. Mustafa immediately marched a distance from the procession. They entered upon Sultan Selim and adorned him with diamonds and brought him to where Sultan Mustafa was. Selim said to him, pointing to al-Bardar, "This is the Sultan you seek from us today." When al-Bardar saw him, he wept bitterly. The killing of Sultan Selim spread among the soldiers, who became agitated, broke their opponents, and the sedition intensified. They succeeded in deposing Sultan Mustafa, then they killed him and placed him in the same place where Sultan Selim was killed, on the fifth of Jumada al-Ula in the year twenty-three and one thousand two hundred Hijri, which is the year eight hundred and twenty-three AD. His reign lasted a few months. The king was born after him to his brother, Sultan Mahmud II, in the prime of his youth and the bloom of his age.

(Chapter Twenty-One) Sultan Mahmud II, son of Sultan Abd al-Hamid Then, after the deposition of Sultan Mustafa, his brother Sultan Mahmud II took power and was pledged allegiance as king on Thursday, the fifth of Jumada al-Ula in the year twenty-three and two hundred and one thousand Hijri, which is the year eight hundred and twenty-three AD. News of this reached Egypt. Muhammad Ali Pasha celebrated with outward displays of festivity, and the city was decorated for his accession. They prayed for him on the pulpits in Cairo and all the cities of Upper and Lower Egypt. Sultan Mahmud appointed Mustafa Pasha al-Bardar as his Grand Vizier, entrusting him with the position of Prime Minister and authorizing him in all matters of policy and good governance. He began working to subdue the Janissary corps and bring them under control. One day, he gathered all the senior state officials, high-ranking dignitaries, scholars, and sheikhs and held a grand council. They all recited the oath of allegiance due to the rebellion of the Janissaries and their failure to adhere to their old customs and traditions. He complained extensively about the severity of the affliction and asked them to unite in repelling this corruption and to decide who would take responsibility for these people who had seized the state's interests, which had been taken over by failure and mismanagement. They agreed to this and concurred with him in obtaining a fatwa from the Mufti of the Sultanate.