System restore w/o the vault

is there a way to do a system restore to earlier date (like a couple of hours go) to recover my deleted 'trash' in the mail client.
and sadly i have not been using the vault..
thank you in advance

You can restore from a backup to a specific date >  Mac Basics: Time Machine backs up your Mac

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