He especially directed that no soldiers should be suffered to appear in any town where an election was going on.
[628] His admirers were able to boast, and his enemies seem not to have been able to deny, that the sense of the constituent bodies was fairly taken.

It is true that he risked little.

The party which was attached to him was triumphant, enthusiastic, full of life and energy.

The party from which alone he could expect serious opposition was disunited and disheartened, out of humour with itself, and still more out of humour with its natural chief.

A great majority, therefore, of the shires and boroughs returned Whig members.
It was not over England alone that William's guardianship now extended.
Scotland had risen on her tyrants.