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The Virginia Gazette Foreign News September 10, 1736
Richmond, Richmond, Virginia
What is this article about?
Baron de Neuhoff, having taken Bastia and the whole island, is proclaimed and crowned King Theodore I of Corsica, swearing not to give offices to foreigners or tax without the Senate's consent; Genoese estates are forfeited.
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Measured from the scan
— how cleanly the OCR engine read the characters
- Mean ink quality
- 99.0% The length-weighted average confidence across the OCR lines — the mean of exactly the per-line scores whose tails the two figures below report. Typical is 99%.
- Illegible ink
- 0.0% Text sitting in OCR-detected lines that scored below 80% confidence — very shaky reads. Weighted by line length, so one long bad line counts for more than a short one.
- Uncertain ink
- 0.0% Text in lines that scored 80–90% — somewhat shaky reads.
- Matches source
- 97.77% How closely the served text matches the raw OCR of the same boxes, letter by letter, after collapsing spacing and case. This measures agreement, not correctness: the OCR is often wrong and the extractor corrects it, so 100% does not mean perfect, and a low figure usually means poor scan text was rewritten rather than that text was lost (length vs source shows loss).
- Length vs source
- 99.47% Below 100% means text was dropped from the OCR; above means text was added to make it read.
Assembled by the extraction model
— whether the stitched-together text holds up; catches layout and segmentation errors, which the scores above cannot see
- Transcription confidence
- 96.0% (typical 96%) How cleanly the extractor could assemble what it was given. Low here with clean ink scores points at layout analysis — the characters were read correctly but grouped or ordered wrongly.
- Comprehension
- 95.0% Whether the piece reads coherently start to finish. Can stay high while transcription confidence drops, when only part of the component is affected.
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May 21. We have Advice from Corsica, that the Baron de Neuhoff having made himself Master of the whole Island by the Reduction of Bastia, has been acknowledged, proclaim'd, and crown'd King, with the usual Forms. The Ceremony was perform'd in the open Fields, in the midst of his Troops and a vast Concourse of People. His Crown indeed was only a Wreath of Laurel; but what he wanted in the Richness of his Diadem, was made up in the Shouts of the Spectators, to whom he was shewn in Triumph; being carry'd about on the Shoulders of his General Officers. He has taken the Stile of Theodore I. King of Corsica. By his Coronation-Oath, he is not to give any Employs, Civil or Military, to Foreigners, nor to introduce any Foreign Troops, except a Corps of 1500 Men which is allow'd him for his Guard; nor to lay any Tax on the People without the Consent of the Senate of Eighteen. The Estates belonging to the Genoese are to become forfeited to the new King, as are likewise those of all other Persons who do not submit to, and acknowledge, King Theodore, within a Term of Twenty Days, to be reckoned from his Coronation.
What sub-type of article is it?
Rebellion Or Revolt
Royal Event
Political
What keywords are associated?
Corsica Rebellion
Theodore Neuhoff
Coronation
Bastia Reduction
Genoa Estates Forfeited
What entities or persons were involved?
Baron De Neuhoff (Theodore I)
Where did it happen?
Corsica
Foreign News Details
Primary Location
Corsica
Event Date
May 21
Key Persons
Baron De Neuhoff (Theodore I)
Outcome
reduction of bastia; neuhoff crowned king; genoese estates forfeited; foreigners barred from offices.