IMO, since the BTC supply is limited, the price will shoot up when some of the people find that they have lost BTC

Pirate has the BTC, the price movement depends largely on what HE does - buying Ferraris = down, holding BTC for a nice retirement = stability/up.
There may be some up movement to BTC if people panic on GLBSE and sell other stocks/bonds and move back into BTC.
Based on how little the Bitcoinica hack did to price I am guessing the effect of Pirate either way will be small.