Fond of display, he there entered upon a course of extravagant living that was instrumental in his ruin.^ He made his head-quarters at the fine old mansion built by William Penn, kept a coach and four, gave splendid dinner parties, and charmed the gayer portions of Philadelphia society with his princely display, filis station and the splendour of his equipage captivated the daughter of Edwai'd Shippen, a leading loyalist, and afterwards chief justice of Pennsylvania ; she was then only eighteen years of age. Her beauty and accomplishments won the heart of the widower of forty. They were married. Staunch Whigs shook their heads in doubt concerning the alliance of an American general with a leading Tory family?^

^mold's extravagance soon brought numerous creditors to his door. Rather than retrench his expenses he procured money by a system of fraud] and prostitution of his o^cial power : the city being under martial law, his will was supreme, (^he peojile became incensed, and official inquiries into his conduct were instituted^} first by the local state council, and then by the Continental Congress. The latter body referred the whole matter to "Washington. Q^he accused was tried by court-martial, and he was found guilty of two of four charges. The court passed the mildest sentence possible -- a mere reprimand by the commander-in-chief. This duty Washington performed in the most delicate manner.) " Our

»/Soon after Arnold joined the British Army, lie was sent with a considerable force npon a marauding expecKtion up the James Eiver, in Virginia. In an action not far from Richmond, the capital, some Americans were made prisoners. He asked one of them what his countrymen would do with him (Arnold) if they should catch him. The prisoner instantly replied, " Bury thMeg that was wounded at Quebec and Saratoga with military honours, and hang tlie remainder of you." \