Why did the newspaper Publick Occurrences Both Foreign and Domestick start in the first half of the 18th century?

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Answer 1

I don't know of a definitive answer to that, certainly the publisher Harris wanted to make a living with it. He did want to operate a non governmental or party supported paper, those to date did not exist. The paper had one issue, three pages, and was shut down.