1John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams, 18 February 1800 (Adams Papers)
...and no sooner duke of Orleans, than king of France, and his wife consequently Queen— This process you see is at least as short as the counter-process of Hamlet, by which imperial Caesar is metamorphosed into a beer-barrel’s bung.—
2William Cranch to Abigail Adams, 21 November 1797 (Adams Papers)
.... He was formerly a roman Catholic, but was excommunicated for his infidelity, and is now as open in his atheistical, as in his jacobinic principles. He is a Justice of peace, and gets his living by brewing beer and distilling Whiskey, with a Capital furnished by M