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on 29 July 1752, and reportedly made a fortune publishing his paper. From the beginning, the intention was to produce a politically neutral paper which would gain revenue from objectively reporting news; until well into the nineteenth century the paper maintained its rather bland image. A conscious
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began to publish literary reviews. Jacob van
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of the early nineteenth century (during which many Dutch papers were shut down by the occupier). Smeding died in 1814; Pieter
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