To the preliminaries of the
peace concluded in February 1763, Pitt offered an indignant resistance, considering the terms quite inadequate to the successes that had been gained by the country. When the treaty was discussed in parliament in December of the preceding year, though suffering from a severe attack of gout, he was carried down to the House, and in a speech of three hours' duration, interrupted more than once by
paroxysms of pain, he strongly protested against its various conditions. These conditions included the return of the sugar islands (but Britain retained
Dominica); trading stations in West Africa (won by Boscawen);
Pondicherry, (France's Indian colony); and fishing rights in
Newfoundland. Pitt's opposition arose through two heads: France had been given the means to become once more formidable at sea, whilst
Frederick had been betrayed.
Pitt believed that the task had been left half-finished and called for a final year of war which would crush French power for good. Pitt had long-held plans for further conquests which had been uncompleted.