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The Virginia Gazette Foreign News September 14, 1769
Richmond, Richmond, Virginia
What is this article about?
A letter from Leghorn reports that Captain Charles Wood of the Bermudas packet brought General Paoli safely from Porto Vecchio to Leghorn, outrunning French feluccas; Paoli made a strong impression on the writer.
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Measured from the scan
— how cleanly the OCR engine read the characters
- Mean ink quality
- 98.0% 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
- 95.59% 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
- 100.35% 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
- 95.0% (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
- 90.0% 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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Extract of a letter from Leghorn, June 16.
I beg, my friend, that you will have it put in the newspapers that Captain Charles Wood, of the Bermudas packet, sailed from Porto Vecchio the 22d of June, with General Paoli on board. A zebeck ordered him to come on board when he was getting under sail, which he did; the French Captain strictly examined him about his having any passengers on board, which the other assured him he had not, except a supercargo, being bound for Ivica to load salt for Punta di Goro, which satisfied the French Captain, in appearance. However, as soon as Captain Wood was under sail the Frenchman sent three feluccas after him; but the wind blowing fresh, he outran them, and safely brought the brave General Paoli hither, which gives great pleasure to everybody. I assure you he is a man of the most engaging aspect I ever saw, and so affable that his eyes invite one to talk freely to him. At the first look he seemed rather thoughtful, but on his beginning to talk of Corsica a most engaging brightness overspread his countenance. In short, one cannot look at and converse with him without having a kind of enthusiasm for him. Captain Wood brought hither a cargo of logwood from Honduras, and was actually freighted to go from hence to Ivica, to load salt for Punta di Goro, in the Gulf of Venice; but being forced into Porto Vecchio, he has had the honour of bringing off the brave, the great, the wonderful Paoli.
I beg, my friend, that you will have it put in the newspapers that Captain Charles Wood, of the Bermudas packet, sailed from Porto Vecchio the 22d of June, with General Paoli on board. A zebeck ordered him to come on board when he was getting under sail, which he did; the French Captain strictly examined him about his having any passengers on board, which the other assured him he had not, except a supercargo, being bound for Ivica to load salt for Punta di Goro, which satisfied the French Captain, in appearance. However, as soon as Captain Wood was under sail the Frenchman sent three feluccas after him; but the wind blowing fresh, he outran them, and safely brought the brave General Paoli hither, which gives great pleasure to everybody. I assure you he is a man of the most engaging aspect I ever saw, and so affable that his eyes invite one to talk freely to him. At the first look he seemed rather thoughtful, but on his beginning to talk of Corsica a most engaging brightness overspread his countenance. In short, one cannot look at and converse with him without having a kind of enthusiasm for him. Captain Wood brought hither a cargo of logwood from Honduras, and was actually freighted to go from hence to Ivica, to load salt for Punta di Goro, in the Gulf of Venice; but being forced into Porto Vecchio, he has had the honour of bringing off the brave, the great, the wonderful Paoli.
What sub-type of article is it?
Political
Naval Affairs
What keywords are associated?
Paoli Escape
Captain Charles Wood
Leghorn Arrival
What entities or persons were involved?
Captain Charles Wood
General Paoli
Where did it happen?
Leghorn
Foreign News Details
Primary Location
Leghorn
Event Date
June 16 (Letter); Sailed June 22
Key Persons
Captain Charles Wood
General Paoli
Outcome
paoli escaped french pursuit and arrived safely at leghorn