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Industrial Development 259
ordered the building of a coast flotilla to operate with
land forces for coast protection.
Count Karl Gustav Tessin. The Hats had thus won
the confidence of well-nigh the whole people and were
more powerful than ever. Under their leadership
Sweden was again united for common defense. Their
foremost man, the president of the chancery, was Count
Gustav Tessin. He was the Magnus De la Gardie of his
day. Like the latter he was a brilliant man of the
world, with the same warm interest in art and learn-
ing, which he generously supported. As an orator he
was one of the foremost of his time. At the court in
Paris, with its dazzling splendor, its elegant salons, he
had, had his training, and had there lived as a French-
man. In his own country he had infused this love of
everything French in all lines from politics and litera-
ture to the culinary arts. A great statesman he was
not; for this, he was too hot-tempered, too ready to
believe what he wished to believe, and thought too
much of what was brilliant and appealing. In his
merits and defects he was a type of his age and of the
Hat party.
G. INDUSTRIAL AND CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT
Development Policies of the Hat Party. When the
Hat party came to power in 1738, there was a change
not only in politics, but also in industrial life. To raise
Sweden once more to a great power was but one of the
party’s aims. With equal zeal they took up the second
great aim : to make Sweden wealthy and strong. This
had, indeed, been an aim of all good administrations,
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