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The Virginia Gazette Foreign News January 6, 1738
Richmond, Richmond, Virginia
Cautionary note: graphic violence (mob beheading of prisoners)
What is this article about?
Letters from Constantinople report the Ottomans' resolve to continue war with Russia after the fall of Oczakow, an insurrection in the city, the Grand Vizir's removal, and the beheading of two Russian prisoners by the mob.
Quality green show the numbers
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
- 96.9% 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
- 99.46% 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
- 97.0% (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
- 96.0% 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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Full Text
Letters from Constantinople, by the Way of Venice, report, that the Grand Seignior and the whole Divan are greatly inclin'd to carry on the War with Russia; that the taking of Oczakow by the Russian Army had enrag'd the Inhabitants of Constantinople to such a Degree, that there had been an Insurrection in that City; that the Shops were shut up, and the People fearing the worst had stor'd themselves with Provisions for many Days; that the Government, in order to appease the Tumult, had thrown the Blame upon the Grand Vizir, and remov'd him from his Employment; but that the Populace, not content with a single Sacrifice, had violently dragg'd two Russian Officers, who were Prisoners, out of their Apartments, and cut off their Heads.
What sub-type of article is it?
Military Campaign
Rebellion Or Revolt
Political
What keywords are associated?
Constantinople Insurrection
Russia Ottoman War
Oczakow
Grand Vizir
What entities or persons were involved?
Grand Seignior
Grand Vizir
Where did it happen?
Constantinople
Foreign News Details
Primary Location
Constantinople
Key Persons
Grand Seignior
Grand Vizir
Outcome
oczakow taken by russians; insurrection in constantinople; grand vizir removed; two russian prisoners beheaded.