Alexandria Gazette & Advertiser

THE HOLY ALLIANCE."
In the number of the "Recreative Review" for July, the following concludes an entertaining and spirited essay upon the subject of Clubs:-
"Lastly, every one has heard of the Club, or rather Confederacy of Kings, which got the high sounding name of the HOLY ALLIANCE. but it was nothing but a club of stars. Some of the members of the club put us in mind of a couple of astrologers mentioned in Oldy's Librarian, viz: of one Pope and Stephen Taylor, the league or alliance between, whom was the one to steal horses and the other to discover them. Perhaps the title of holy may have arisen from that ally, (which in truth, we have in common with the other allies.) to whom no pecuniary subsidy is paid, and whom every power embraces as his in particular. Andrew Mitchell was an English resident at the Court of Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, to whom he was a personal favorite, though he opposed the sceptical and many of the political assertions of that monarch, with frank but decent firmness. On a certain occasion Mr. Mitchell said, "By the help of God we have gained a victory over the French." "How is this my friend, said the King, is God one of your allies?" "Yes, replied the envoy, and the one who demands no subsidies of us." One of these allies, (the Empress Queen) once excused herself to the Pope for making use of the assistance of England. with this remarkable expression: "Ces sont des braves impies."