JAMES V. king of Scotland, in 1513, was but 18 months old when his father lost his life. When of age, he assisted Francis I. king of France, against the emperor Charles le Quint; for which service Francis gave him his eldest daughter in marriage, in 1535. This princess died in two years; and James married Mary of Lorraine, daughter of Claude duke of Guise, and widow of Louis d'Orleans, by whom he had only one child, the unfortunate Mary queen of Scots, born only eight days before his death, which happened December 13. 1542. This was the first prince of his family who died a natural death, since its elevation to the throne. He wrote the celebrated ballad called Christ's Kirk on the Green, and other little poems, which, at least, tradition reports to have been of his composition. They have a character of ease and libertinism, says Mr Walpole, which makes the tradition the more probable, and are to be found in a collection of Scottish poems called The Evergreen; the Gaber-lunzie Man is reckoned the best. There is something very ludicrous in the young woman's distress when she thought that her first favour had been thrown away on a beggar.