''De Post van den Neder-Rhijn'' ("The Post of the

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") was a

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magazine from 1781 to 1787, at the end of the

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. It was one of the first opinion weeklies in the

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, and was edited by

Pieter 't Hoen Pieter 't Hoen (baptized 18 October 1744 in Utrecht – 9 January 1828 in Amersfoort) was a Dutch people, Dutch journalist, poet, and politician who played an important role during the Patriottentijd as the editor of De Post van den Neder-Rhijn. ...

(1744–1828). Through the first publication of ''De Post van den Neder-Rhijn'' in January 1781 the periodical political opinion press was born in the Netherlands. & (1987) Voor Vaderland en Vrijheid. Revolutie in Nederland 1780-1787. Cat. Centraal Museum Utrecht, p. 21. After the

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in September 1787 and the following Orange Restoration, the paper initially tried to placate the stadtholder

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by welcoming his return, but shortly thereafter the publication was discontinued, and 't Hoen fled abroad (probably France or the Southern Netherlands). In March 1795, after Revolutionary France's successful Flanders campaign and the

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of the

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, he returned and resumed the publication of what was now called ''De nieuwe post van den Neder-Rhyn'' ("The New Post of the Nether Rhine") until December 1799. A separate editorial staff without 't Hoen published a few more issues in 1797 en 1798 using the magazine's old title.

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