AN ACCOUNT OF THE

# Happy WEDDING,

That took place at St. AUGUSTINE's Church,
Yesterday Morning, Nov. 28;
Between a Man of Colour, well known as a Shoeblack, on the Quay,
And a Servant Girl, living at a Public-House, in that
Neighbourhood; being the sable Bridegroom's Fifth Wife!

There's no accounting for Love;—when once the little God Cupid,
shoots his arrow into a maiden's heart, it is all over!—farewell rest
day and night!—nothing will cure the wound, but Doctor Hymen;—
he is the only Physician resorted to upon such occasions, and as he per-
forms the cure, so will he crown the applicants with honour and hap-
piness if they will attend to his prescriptions;—he dwells only in parish
churches, chapels, &c. and at his shrine thousands have been healed of
broken hearts—and, by not obeying his dictates, thousands have re-
ceived broken heads, and repented of wearing his adamantine chain.—but
with respect to taste, it is with love, as it is with the palate—’ what
is one man’s meat, is another’s poison:”—Black, through Love’s eyes,
appears delicately white, and some to their misfortune have discovered
the most fair to be horribly black—and instead of taking to wife angels,
they have turned out to be d-s! But to our story:—

The above parties set out yesterday morning, from the Quay—not in
a sedan chair, but from the Sedan Chair, to St. Augustine's Church,
where they were joined in the sacered bands of wedlock. A great con-
course of people attended them, and after the ceremony was over, ex-
pected them to return immediately, but neither the Bride nor Bride-
groom, white nor black, was to be seen. It was soon discovered that
some wags had locked them in the Church, where they were kept pri-
soners for two hours, when they were liberated by the Sexton. As soon
as the fond couple made their appearance, they were grossly assaulted
by the mobility collected without, and we are told that the Bridegroom
before he reached home, was so indelicately treated, that he nearly re-
sembled a sans culottes!

This, we are informed, is the Fifth wife of the Bridegroom.

H. Benner, Printer, No. 4, Narrow Wine-Street, Bristol.