WHO IS THE DUPE ? —Mr. THOMPSON the actor appeared
before Sir RICHARD BIRNIE this week, with a heavy complaint against Mr. Baal-mom, of Drury Lane Theatre. Mr. THOMPSON stated, that he had been asked to write two pieces,—one Jack Robinson, a prover- bially short affair ; the other, the part of a dumb Savoyard gentleman, or as other accounts give it, of a monkey. Mr. THOMPSON undertook the task of writing for Jack Robinson, as well as the dumb man and the monkey ; and intrusted his lucubrations to Mr. BARRYMORE, who was the agent that had engaged his powerful pen. Mr. B., so says Mr. T., sold Jack to ELLISTON for fifty-four pounds, and the Savoyard to Mr. PRICE for sixty. But of the twin productions of his brain poor Mr. T. never handled a penny. " Mr. PRICE," said Mr. T. to Sir RICHARD, "has two bad characters on his establishment—a rogue, and a fool.
BARRYMORE is the rogue, and your bumble servant (Mr. T. to iht) is the fool."
Mr. BARRYMORE has sent a letter to the newspapers, in which, leaving to Mr. THOMPSON undisputed possession of the character that he has chosen, he decidedly declines the character that has been as- signed to himself. He denies that Mr. T. wrote the speeches either of the monkey or the duinb gentleman, and further declares that be (Mr.
T.) has received all that he had a claim to. We anxiously long for an eclaircissement of this important dispute.
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