Lafayette arrived in the Cadmus at Staten Island on Sunday, but postponed by request his entrance into New York until the following day. The landing at the Battery must have been a magnificent sight. The steamship Robert Fulton, manned by two hundred sailors from the Constitution, and her companion ship the Chancellor Livingston, “led in triumph rather than towed the Cadmus to the place of landing.” Two hundred thousand persons welcomed the General with shouts, cannon thundered from the shore, the forts, the vessels. Flags, triumphal arches, decorations of various kinds adorned the streets and buildings. For those who, when they glance at their “Landing” plates, wish to find the image of the General there present, I will add that he was then sixty-eight years of age, was conceded by all to be far from a beautiful or heroic figure, with his small head, staring eyes, retreating forehead, and bad complexion, and he wore on that occasion “nankeen pantaloons, buff vest, and plain blue coat with covered buttons.” 76. Lafayette. Faïence Patriotique. Nevers. A plate of coarse pottery, with border of blue and yellow leaves. At the top two blue and yellow flags, and in the centre of the plate this legend in hand-painted, irregular letters of blue: (“Cadet Rousette a des plats bleus Qui sont beaux, qui n’vont pas au feu; Si vous voulez en faire emplette, Adressez-vous à La Fayette. Ah! Ah! Ah! mais vraiment, Cadet Rousette est bon enfant.” 1792.) This is a good specimen of the “Faïences Patriotiques.” These revolutionary emblems were made at the Nevers Pottery, in France, in large numbers, at the time of the French Revolution. They were coarsely painted with patriotic, though frequently ill-spelled, designs and mottoes, and were designed to appeal to and influence the French peasantry. The great heat used in the firing prevented the potters from using red paint (since that color was destroyed by the high temperature), so in direct violation of all “rules of revolutionary iconology,” the liberty cap was rendered in blue or yellow. It was in honor of the “Fayence of Nevers” that the poem of Defraney was written that begins, (“Chantons, Fille du Ciel, l’honneur de la Fayence! Quel Art! dans l’Italie il reçut la naissance Et vint, passant les monts, s’établir dans Nevers. Ses ouvrages charmans vont au delà des mers.”) This Nevers plate is in the Huntington Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 77. Lafayette. Faïence Patriotique. Nevers. Plate of coarse Nevers pottery with hideous profile portrait of Lafayette in yellow and blue, and date 1794. Border of blue leaves. Also in the Huntington Collection. 78. Lafayette. Faïence Patriotique. Nevers.