Daily National Intelligencer

BALTIMORE, MAY 29.

Three gentlemen, citizens of the province of the River La Plata, have just reached this city from Savannah, where they landed from the British cutter Hero, arrived at that place from Buenos Ayres. The three gentlemen above alluded to, are Dr. Don Pedro Agrelo, late a member of the legislature of Buenos Ayres, and a Magistrate; Don Manuel Moreno, secretary of State, and the eldest officer in that department; and Don Vincente Pasos, editor of the free paper entitled "La Cronica Argentina." Those which remained at Savannah, are Colonel Don Domingo French, who four months since commanded the Patriot Troops in Peru; Colonel Don Eusebio Valdenegro, with his wife and two children; Colonel Don Manuel Pagola; Colonel Don Feliciano Chiclana, a member of the executive and a gentleman of the bar.

These gentlemen were all seized in Buenos Ayres, on the 13th of February, at the same hour, by officers of the government, while they were resting under the protection of their dwellings, or discharging the duties of their respective stations. They were immediately carried on board a man of war of that government, not being suffered to communicate with their families and friends, or to justify themselves before a proper tribunal, against the charges in pursuance of which they experienced such cruel treatment. They were compelled to remain in the river, out of sight of the town, and finally destined to be transported without any previous judgment.

This was effected by taking them on board of another vessel of war, which carried them to the mouth of the River Plate, where they found ready to receive them the British Cutter Hero, Capt. James Garnock, an Englishman by birth, who so far prostituted himself as to contract with the Director of Buenos Ayres, Juan Martin Pueyrredon, for the transportation of these unfortunate citizens, for the sum of four thousand dollars. He took them on board his cutter on the 9th of March.

The official letter delivered by the Director to this British captain, is a very singular one. Its purport is to palliate, before the authorities of this country, this scandalous negociation, in the prosecution of which he was to present himself in our ports; for it was to the United States, by the arbitrary will of the government of Buenos Ayres, that they were destined. This letter was directed to the chief magistrate or officer of the place in this country where the cutter might arrive, and is couched in the following terms:

"The persons mentioned in the enclosed list (those already named) have been shipped on board the cutter Hero, bound to the United States. They are unfortunate beings, whom the government has expelled from their country on account of their variance in politics, and of their exalted ideas. They must be viewed as criminals; but as they were considered dangerous, it has become expedient to transport them, directing them to that country where they cannot cause alarm, as its constitution and laws present a formidable barrier."