Well, let's not get carried away. Napoleonic France was just as bad as England in making a situation not conducive to a peaceful situation.
ok. You are right. but We can see the state of affairs in perspective.
As I said earlier, which you disagreed with, the two actions were part of one strategy.
Yes, in this point we disagreed. In July 1807, Napoleon signatured the
Treaty of Tilsit. Russia became his ally and NI reached the summit of his power and glory, the Grandeur. Only Britain bore up against him. Like It was an Island ad like N had lost the fleet in Trafalgar (1805)...the only option for Britan "saw the reasons of peace", was the economic blockade with the goals to wreck the British industry and trade.
Therefore, NI signatured the two decrees establishing the Continental System (one in Berlin, the other one in Milan). Under these decrees was prohibited trade with Britain, not only for France and its allies, but for any European country. However, the initiative of violence against neutral countries didn´t begin Napoleon, but Britain.
The new British government (primer minister:
Duke of Portland, Foreing Office,
George Canning and War Office,
viscount Castlereagh) not merely rejected the Russian proposal for mediation, August 10, but organized a treacherous attack on Denmark (much like
Pearl Harbour by the Japanese in 1941), whose capital was attacked by land and sea and bombed the population (from 2 to 7 September)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Copenhagen_(1807) killing more than 2.000 civilian.
As a result of such an unjustifiable aggression, Denmark declared war on Britain and allied with Napoleon, Austria and Prussia joined the Continental System and Russia broke the Diplomatic Relations with Britain. The British government was not discouraged and continued this aggressive policy towards neutral (
Order in Council, November 11, 1807).
Napoleon responded to the British attack on Denmark with the order to close the continent to British trade. N gave orders to
Tayllerand that intimated Portugal to close their ports to British before September 1st under threat to invade the country with a French-Spanish army.
When the French entered Spain towards Portugal still didn´t think to intervene in Spain.