Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Dangantakar Pitt da Duke ta kara tabarbarewa a farkon 1756 lokacin da ya yi zargin cewa Newcastle da gangan ya bar tsibirin Menorca ba tare da kariya ba don Faransawa su kwace shi, kuma Newcastle na iya amfani da asarar ta don tabbatar da cewa Burtaniya ba ta iya yaƙi da Faransa da kuma neman zaman lafiya. Lokacin da Menorca ta fadi a watan Yunin 1756
bayan wani yunƙurin da Admiral Byng ya yi na sauƙaƙe shi, zargin Pitt ya haifar da fushin jama'a game da Newcastle, wanda ya kai shi ga wani taron jama'a a Greenwich. Rashin Menorca ya rushe bangaskiyar jama'a a Newcastle, kuma ya tilasta masa ya sauka a matsayin Firayim Minista a watan Nuwamba 1756.