Holy Alliance

(-al-lī'ans,) (The.) (Hist.) A treaty or compact entered into by the Emperors of Ru ia and Austria, and the King of Pru ia, and signed at Paris, Sept. 26, 1815, for the ostensible purpose of establishing the pacification of Europe, and maintaining a general spirit of justice and religion. This Alliance received afterwards the acce ions of England, France, and all the European powers, the Pope only excepted; but the two great western nations seceded from it-England in 1827, France in 1830 - upon finding that the real object of its polity was the promotion and consolidation of an autocratic and reactionary system of govt. [s. 459]