If cultivated sympathy constitutes a legitimate natural motive on Baier's interpretation, then the objection that sympathy with public interest is non-natural misreads Hume's expanded conception of human nature.
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Something that doesn't exist in or arise from the physical, observable world—like abstract concepts, numbers, or moral values (depending on philosophical view).
Public interest(as used in ethics and law)
What benefits society as a whole, rather than what's good for one person or group.
natural motive(Hume's requirement that every morally good action must be producible by such a motive to avoid circularity in moral justification.)
A non-moral motive that is part of human nature and that gives rise to morally good actions independently of moral judgment.
sympathy(Hume's moral psychology)
A mechanism by which we enter into the feelings of others, enabled by resemblance between persons, and modulated in strength by associative relations such as resemblance, contiguity, and causation