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Falkland Islands, the In 1831 the policy of President Jackson towards foreign nations was intimated in his instructions to Louis McLane, his first minister to England, in which he said, Ask nothing but what is right; submit to nothing that is wrong. In this spirit he dealt with the lessee of the Falkland Islands, lying east of Patagonia, South America. These islands were under the protection of Buenos Ayres, and had been leased to Don Louis Vernet, who undertook to compel sailing vessels to take out license to catch seals under his authority. He captured three American vessels, and when the news of this and other outrages reached the United States, the President, always prompt in the vindication of the rights of his countrymen against foreign aggressors, sent Captain Duncan, in the ship-of-war Lexington, to protect American sealers in that region. In December, 1831, he broke up Vernet's establishment, restored the captured prop- Fair Oaks. erty to the owners, and sent seve