The City-Heiress

About the show

Tory rake Tom Wilding schemes against his Whig uncle, Sir Timothy Treat-all, while both pursue London heiress Charlot. Through disguises, a staged offer of the Polish throne, and a contrived burglary exposing Treat-all's treason, Wilding wins Charlot and is restored to his inheritance; a subplot concerns Lady Galliard and a drunken suitor.