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the total defeat of Sir R Walpole's power was carrying the point of a desputed election by six voices only and finding his party every day grow weaker and weaker in the House of Commons the Minester took into serious consideration a timely retreat--The King adjourned both Houses of Parliament for the space of a fortnight and in the enterem Sir R Walpole was created Earl of Oxford and resigned all his employments--A General and frantic joy overspread the Nation on the dismission of Sir Robert --Walpole-- the new administration was soon arranged in which the-- Duke of Newcastle and Mr Pelham kept their places-- the Earl of Wilmington succeeded Sir R Walpole as first Lord Commissioner of the treasury and Mr Sandys was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer-- In the Month of April 16,000 regular troops afterwards increased to a much larger number were embarked for Flanders and were shortly after joined by 16,000--Hanoverians
