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

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's successful

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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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