But the dread of the French King, the Pope, and the Pretender, prevailed; and Sir John was at the bottom of the poll.

Southwark not only returned Whigs, but gave them instructions of the most Whiggish character.
In the country, parties were more nearly balanced than in the capital.
Yet the news from every quarter was that the Whigs had recovered part at least of the ground which they had lost.

Wharton had regained his ascendency in Buckinghamshire.

Musgrave was rejected by Westmoreland.
Nothing did more harm to the Tory candidates than the story of Poussin's farewell supper.

We learn from their own acrimonious invectives that the unlucky discovery of the three members of Parliament at the Blue Posts cost thirty honest gentlemen their seats.