Definition of "messaging"

Excited by all kinds of messagings, informings and insinuations, the imperious Prince, in spite of his secret pleasure in this sudden renown of his Pupil, could in no wise be persuaded to revoke or soften his harsh Order, […]

1872, [Ernst Julius] Saupe, Thomas Carlyle, transl., “ Saupe’s ‘Schiller and His Father’s Household.’ I. The Father.”, in The Life of Friedrich Schiller: […] (Thomas Carlyle’s Collected Works), 2nd edition, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1873, page 198