TO LIBYA
France would like to make you a gift of 1000 Francs (1 gold) to use as you wish (UK, subtract it from my salary next turn). We know that Napoleon's acting Consul was neglectful of your nation during N.'s illness, but France wants nothing but friendship with the nations of Africa.
In the meantime we urge you to stay neutral in the war. Show yourselves to be the noble people you are and, like France, sensibly remain neutral in a war that has no interest for you.
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Spain, Napoleon wishes peace with you but he cannot rest idle while you join in the tussle of foolish nations wasting their young men in useless battles. Napoleon grows more and more sick daily as he realizes what a hell the nations of Europe are in for.
Rest assured, moreover, that an affront to Italy is an affront to France.
Therefore, while France neither possess the men, nor the resources, nor the will to go to war with our friendly Spanish neighbors, a Spanish-Italian war will result in a French trade embargo on Spanish products until peace is concluded.
The right of passage through the waters of the Gulf of Lyons to Spanish war ships is DENIED. Likewise, may I add, the right of Italian ships to float in these waters is also abrdiged. If you wish war with Italy, please, do not conduct it on my land or my water. Spanish troops will no more pass through the Gulf, than they shall pass through Provence.
I regret this action and the hostile overtones it may have, but France is a poor nation and does not possess armies to cover all her borders. Therefore, nations which we do not intimately trust will not be allowed to trespass on French possessions.
The detection of Spanish troops of ANY KIND in 12, 13, or J, will lead IMMEDIATELY and UNCONDITIONALLY to a declaration of War against Spain, and Peace will not be resumed until Spain cedes at least half its territory and apologizes.
I hope you will not prove so foolish as to test my bluff. French troops are already on their way to the various borders of France, but will not step over unless you provoke them.
Again, Peace to all neighbors of France.
[OOC] Toasty, I am sorry but my limited resources will not allow me to harbor Spanish Galleons in seas where they may immediately launch an attack against the ally of their enemy. I STRONGLY urge you to stay neutral. You can't gain anything from this war.
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), I will update the map tomorrow instead of tonight(cause I'm shattered, I'm currently writing WTWGMAD(see stories), running the Poly contest while Civman is away, and managing the two UKNES2s, and still having to have a life, which is why most of this is done at midnight or so my time lol).
