He was the subject of the first book printed in Western Australia. Entitled A report of the late trial for libel !!! : Clarke versus Macfaul, 4 September 1835, it gives William Nairne Clark's account of the successful libel suit against Macfaull. William Narine Clark was a competing publisher to Macfaull. The text concerns a court settlement in favour of a Captain Clark, of the vessel Skerne, whose seamanship had been questioned in the pages of the Perth Gazette. A letter of apology was refused by Clark and the court's determination found the publication was slanderous in their comments on the captain and the proprietor Charles Macfaull was ordered to pay £21 in damages. The work has been noted by academic Geoffrey Bolton and others as the first publication in Western Australia.
