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The Virginia Gazette Foreign News July 16, 1772
Richmond, Richmond, Virginia
Cautionary note: graphic execution details (amputation, beheading, quartering)
What is this article about?
Counts Struensee and Brandt were executed at Copenhagen: their right hands cut off, then beheaded and quartered, their bodies placed on a wheel and poles; Struensee penitent, Brandt bold.
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
- 98.29% 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
- 99.76% 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
- 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
By Letters from Copenhagen, of the 28th ult. we learn that the Counts Struensee and Brandt underwent the Execution of their Sentence that Day, at eight o'Clock, before the east Gate of the City, in the Middle of a Field, upon a Scaffold erected for that Purpose, which was nine Ells high, and the upper Part eight Ells square. Their Sentence was to have their right Hands cut off, afterwards their Heads, then their Bodies to be quartered, and put on a Wheel, after which they were to be put on Poles, and placed over the Gates. Count Struensee was dressed in Green and Gold, and Count Brandt in Blue and Gold. Struensee, after his Hand was cut off, rose up, and was obliged, by Force, to sit down again; but Brandt did not move at all. The former behaved very penitently, but the other's Conduct was remarkably bold.
What sub-type of article is it?
Execution
Court News
What keywords are associated?
Struensee Brandt Execution
Copenhagen Scaffold
Danish Court Sentence
What entities or persons were involved?
Count Struensee
Count Brandt
Where did it happen?
Copenhagen
Foreign News Details
Primary Location
Copenhagen
Event Date
The 28th Ult.
Key Persons
Count Struensee
Count Brandt
Outcome
both executed by amputation, beheading and quartering; struensee penitent, brandt bold.