Only eighty-eight voted with Harley, two hundred and twenty-nine with Wharton.

The Whigs were so much elated by their victory that some of them wished to move a vote of thanks to William for his gracious answer; but they were restrained by wiser men.

"We have lost time enough already in these unhappy debates," said a leader of the party.

"Let us get to Ways and Means as fast as we can.

The best form which our thanks can take is that of a money bill." Thus ended, more happily than William had a right to expect, one of the most dangerous contests in which he ever engaged with his Parliament.
At the Dutch Embassy the rising and going down of this tempest had been watched with intense interest; and the opinion there seems to have been that the King had on the whole lost neither power nor popularity by his conduct.