In a word, France resumed her facilities for trading, but practically abandoned her pretensions to political influence.

It was tacitly understood that the English company would keep all its conquests.
The right of fishing upon the coasts of Newfoundland and in parts of the Gulf of St.Lawrence, which France had previously enjoyed, was conceded to her by this treaty; but it was denied to Spain, who had claimed it for her fishermen.

This concession was among those most attacked by the English opposition.
The nation at large and Pitt, the favorite of the nation, were bitterly opposed to the terms of the treaty.

"France," said Pitt, "is chiefly formidable to us as a maritime and commercial power.

What we gain in this respect is valuable to us above all through the injury to her which results from it.